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Patent JP-2003312755-A (JP)
Title: Container for granular article
Inventor: NOSE KAZUAKI
IPC: B65D83/04
Filed: 2002-04-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container for a granular article of which the manufacturing cost is reduced by integrally molding all members including a spring with a synthetic resin material, of which the take out port can be opened/closed by an extremely simple motion, and of which the usability is good.  <P>SOLUTION: This container for the granular article comprises a container main body, a slide cap which is connected with the container main body through a hinge and a bottom lid, and is integrally molded of the synthetic resin material. The container main body is equipped with an upper wall wherein a stopper which protrudes upward is provided on the end part, and a plate spring which is bent into a U-shape is connected from the lower side of the stopper. The slide cap is equipped with an operating plate which elastically comes into contact with the plate spring, and a lid plate on the rear surface of which a locking piece engaging with the stopper is provided. A granular article-taking out port is drilled on the container main body. Then, an opening which superposes with the granular article-taking out port is drilled on the slide cap in order to form a take out opening.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003319238-A (JP)
Title: Electronic camera
Inventor: WATANABE TOSHIMI
IPC: H04N5/335
Filed: 2002-04-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize a time lag up to photographing by omitting unneeded focus adjustment operation while adopting a contrast method with high focus accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: An electronic camera comprises: an image pickup element for receiving transmitted light of a photographing optical system including a focusing lens; a calculation means for calculating a focus evaluation value changing in accordance with the adjusted focus state of the focusing lens on the basis of an image pickup signal; a focus adjustment means for operating the calculation means while moving the focusing lens in the direction of an optical axis in accordance with focus adjustment start operation, detecting a focal position on the basis of a calculation output of the calculation means and driving the focusing lens to the detected focal position; a clock means for starting clocking at photographing start operation or after photographing; and a determination means for determining whether to operate the focus adjustment means on the basis of a time clocked by the clock means when focus adjustment start operation is performed at the next photographing start after the photographing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003314079-A (JP)
Title: Frame of building
Inventor: MAEDA NOBUYUKI
IPC: E04H9/02
Filed: 2002-04-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a frame capable of preventing torsional moments in an irregularly shaped building.  <P>SOLUTION: A keel frame 4, which functions as a principal quake-resistant element for the entire building because of its rigidity higher than that of a frame 1 therearound, is provided in the center of the frame 1 that forms the skeleton of the entire building, so that the center of rigidity and the center of gravity of the entire building are set in the same or contiguous positions. Part of beams in the frame 1 around the keel frame 4 is omitted and flat beams are used as beams 3 to be provided there, so that the frame 1 has lower rigidity than the keel frame 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003314170-A (JP)
Title: Building shutter equipment
Inventor: SASAKI TADASHI
IPC: E06B9/78
Filed: 2002-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide building shutter equipment constituted by facilitating the mounting of a hand hooking member when the opening and shutting operational hand hooking member is provided to a shutter curtain for opening and shutting an opening section.  <P>SOLUTION: The building shutter equipment is so constituted that the hand hooking member 11 equipped with a fixed section 11a opposed to a slat body section 2a, an upper projection 11c projected to an indoor side from up and down edge sections of the fixed section 11a and a lower projection 11d is fixed to an indoor side of a slat 2 located on an intermediate in the vertical direction of the shutter curtain 1 through a double faced tape 12 between the fixed section 11a and the slat body section 2a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003312523-A (JP)
Title: Detector for abnormality in tire pneumatic pressure
Inventor: FUKUYAMA YUICHI
IPC: B60C23/02
Filed: 2002-04-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a detector for abnormality in tire pneumatic pressure for improving a detection property for abnormality in the tire pneumatic pressure by a driver at a low cost without providing a new device.  <P>SOLUTION: A vehicle having an electric power steering mechanism 18 to apply an assist force TA to reduce a steering force to a steering wheel 1 during a steering operation comprises a tire pneumatic pressure sensor 10 to detect the tire pneumatic pressure, and an EPS controller 8 to set the assist force TA applied by the electric power steering mechanism 18 when it is determined that the tire pneumatic pressure 8f is deviated from the adequate range of the tire pneumatic pressure to be different from the assist force TA applied when the tire pneumatic pressure 8f is within adequate tire pneumatic pressure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003320445-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus for heating and melting metal
Inventor: NANTO HIROSHI
IPC: B22D17/28
Filed: 2002-04-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for heating and melting metal, by which a necessary amount of a metal material is heated and melted in a container to obtain molten metal to be supplied to a casting apparatus or the like by opening and closing of the container, and the molten metal is prevented from leaking from the opening and closing portion of the container.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus for heating and melting metal comprises a receptacle 3 which has an opening 3d at the bottom and receives the molten metal, a lid constituted of a plurality of members 601 to 605 for closing the opening 3d, and an induction heating coil 10 which induces a current in the metal material in the receptacle 3, heats the metal material and generates a magnetic field which makes the force for preventing the molten metal in the receptacle 3 from leaking between the opening 3d and the lid 22 act on the molten metal. Members 601 to 605 constituting the lid are respectively formed of non- ferromagnet substance.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003323008-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus and its control method
Inventor: NOZAWA TAIZO
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2002-04-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus with high reliability capable of always forming an image of stable density and high image quality, irrespective of a change in transfer efficiency, and to provide its control method.  <P>SOLUTION: At a warming up time, the operational condition of the apparatus is set so that a prescribed latent image is formed on a photoreceptor, then, developed, and the amount of developer sticking to the photoreceptor becomes the prescribed reference value. And, the environmental temperature and the environmental humidity are detected, and the operational condition set at the warming up time is corrected in accordance with the detected temperature and the detected humidity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003323045-A (JP)
Title: Developing device, charging method used for the same, and image forming apparatus having the developing device
Inventor: TOIZUMI KIYOSHI
IPC: G03G21/14
Filed: 2002-05-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device in which a thermal load to a developer is low, and a developer is surely charged even immediately after starting the transport of the developer by means of a developer transport means, and to provide a charging method used for the same, and an image forming apparatus having the developing device.  <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus has: a blade 14 for charging a toner by providing an electron generated by a photoelectric effect on a photoelectric surface 14b to the toner; an ultraviolet ray irradiator 13 irradiating the photoelectric surface 14b with light; a developing roller 11 holding the charged toner and transporting the developer to a photoreceptor drum 2 on the surface of which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a developing section 1 developing the electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor drum 2 by means of the charged toner. The developing section 1 has a control section controlling at specified timing voltage application to the ultraviolet ray irradiator 13, voltage application to the photoelectric surface 14b, voltage application to the developing roller 11, and the start of toner transport in the developing roller 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003325991-A (JP)
Title: Pseudo communication conversation system, conversation device and drive body
Inventor: HONDA MASAMITSU
IPC: A63H11/00
Filed: 2002-05-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-cost conversation system or the like capable of imparting a relief feeling or a familiarity feeling to a player.  <P>SOLUTION: This system comprises a conversation device 3 with a communication means 19, and a drive body 5 communicatable with the conversation device 3. The conversation device 3 executes conversation with the player using the conversation device 3 by characters or the like inputted by an input means 1 and characters displayed on a display means 13 on the basis of a program, and transmits the whole or a part of conversation information of the characters or the like inputted in the conversation to the drive body 5 via the communication means 19. The drive body 5 receiving the conversation information drives an output means such as a speaker 29 or a motor 27 according to the conversation information to impart such impression that the player and the drive body 5 directly converse.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003283421-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle mount information communication system and vehicle mount information communication apparatus
Inventor: FUJITA SUSUMU
IPC: H04W88/04
Filed: 2002-05-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle mount information communication system and a vehicle mount information communication apparatus for more sophisticated services by utilizing a mobile communication terminal brought into a vehicle.  <P>SOLUTION: The vehicle mount information communication system is provided with: a server 5 installed outside the vehicle 1; and an on-vehicle apparatus 2 installed inside the vehicle 1 and making data communication with the server 5, the on-vehicle apparatus 2 includes: an on-vehicle communication terminal 6 making data communication with the server 5; and a carry-in recognition means 23 for detecting a mobile communication terminal 3 capable of data communication with the server 5, and the server 5 (on-vehicle apparatus 2) is respectively provided with a data division means 53 (24) for dividing the data and a data composite means 54 (25) for composing the divided data to restore the original data. Further, the on-vehicle apparatus 2 is provided with a communication terminal list database 26 for the on-vehicle communication terminals 6 and the mobile communication terminals 3 which are available at present.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003331095-A (JP)
Title: Workflow (application approval operation) by management of db
Inventor: ARAIKAWA YUICHI
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-05-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an application approval system capable of flexibly changing the working place of an approver and managing the approval state of each application documents.  <P>SOLUTION: The application approval system is constituted of a Web server 200, a client 100 connected to the Web server 200 through a network, a database 300, and a database access module 210 built in the Web server 200. Application data inputted from the client 100 are stored in the database 300, and the database access module 210 circulates the application data among approvers concerned in accordance with a prescribed approval route stored in the database 300 and manages the approval history of each application data. In addition, the module 210 identifies a user and displays a picture pattern specified for each user on the client 100.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003331859-A (JP)
Title: Separator for fuel cell, its manufacturing method, and fuel cell using separator for fuel cell
Inventor: ISHIHARA KAZUHIKO
IPC: C23C28/00
Filed: 2002-05-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a separator for a fuel cell with high corrosion resistance, capable of manufacturing at a low cost, and to provide a method for manufacturing the separator, and a fuel cell using the separator for the fuel cell.  <P>SOLUTION: A metal plate 11, a clad metal plate whose surface layer is Mo, or a metal plate having a Ni-Sn diffusion layer 12 on the surface is press worked to form a gas passage, and a film comprising a mixture of polyamide- imide resin and carbon powder is formed on the worked metal plate to form the separator 10, and the separator 10 is assembled to a membrane-electrode assembly 20 comprising a solid polymer membrane and a catalyst carrier electrode to form the fuel cell.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003328689-A (JP)
Title: Hollow structure
Inventor: YAMASHITA KIICHI
IPC: E21D11/04
Filed: 2002-05-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hollow structure which is available as a tunnel and allows passengers and/or drivers to smoothly enter the tunnel or leaves the same without the sense of discomfort.  <P>SOLUTION: With respect to an opening 5a of a hollow portion 5 oriented in a longitudinal direction, when both side wall members 2 and an upper wall member 3 are connected to each other and they are connected to the corresponding members in the longitudinal direction, an interval between both the side wall members 2 and an interval between the upper wall member 3 and a bottom wall member 4 are progressively extended toward an opening end of the hollow portion 5. Further, in the hollow structure 1 formed by connecting both the side wall members 2, the upper wall member 3, and the bottom wall member 4 to each other, the opening 5a of the hollow portion 5, which is a longitudinal end of the hollow structure, can be formed like a bell mouth spreading toward the opening end. As a result, when the hollow structure 1 is employed as the tunnel, it allows passengers and/or drivers to smoothly enter the opening 5a (entrance and exit of the tunnel) of the hollow portion 5 or leaves the same without the sense of discomfort.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003331009-A (JP)
Title: Site pc support system
Inventor: NAITO KENICHI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable even a person who is not an expert and experienced in a site PC to perform PC integration, to make a production plan, to easily investigate and confirm the contents.  <P>SOLUTION: This support system of the site PC produces various members to be made into the PC by a site PC constitution method by yard, is provided with a data base 3 that stores and accumulates accumulated data about the member to be made into the PC having production management information including the shape diagram, dimensions and weight of each of the members to be made into the PC, an input means 2 that inputs the production management information of each member to be made into the PC as the data about the member to be made into the PC by referring to data of the members to be made into the PC which are accumulated in the data base 3 and inputs the production and the erection volume of the members to be made into the PC as production schedule data, and a processing means 1 for integrating pieces of the production management information of pieces of the data for the members to be made into the PC inputted by the input means 2 by every member to be made into the PC and for calculating stock quantity and yard area on the basis of production plan data inputted by the input means, plots a graph of the stock quantity and the yard area and outputs the graph.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003331623-A (JP)
Title: Light guide, lighting device provided with it and display device
Inventor: TSUNODA YUKIHIRO
IPC: F21V8/00
Filed: 2002-05-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light guide with highly efficient use of light, an lighting device provided with it and a display device.  <P>SOLUTION: An incident plate 121 receiving light emitted from a light source 110, an emitting plane 125 emitting light made incident from the incident plane 121, and a prism plane 126 facing the emitting plane 125, are provided. The lighting device is comprised of a first light guiding layer 120a including the prism plane 126, and a second light guiding layer 120b including the light emitting plane 125 and facing the first light guiding layer 120a. The retardation value provided to the plane which is in parallel to the second light guiding layer 120b is ≤15 nm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003325818-A (JP)
Title: Pachinko game machine, server and program
Inventor: NAKANO FUMIO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Pachinko (pinball) game machine for maintaining interest of a player who plays a Pachinko game for a long time by efficiently preventing a status that a big win game is not performed for a long period of time and not to start a big win status for a long time.  <P>SOLUTION: In the Pachinko game machine 10, by drawing a successful lot in the lottery performed in response to prize winning of a game ball in a start hole 44, the big win status advantageous for the player is started, and when the successful lot is drawn in the lottery but control is performed not to start the big win status, the number of times of performing the control not to start the big win status is cumulatively stored. Besides, in the Pachinko game machine 10, control is performed to start a special game status for improving possibility to start the big win status rather than an ordinary game status occasionally just for a prescribed period, and after the control is performed to start the special game status, in accordance with the lapse of the prescribed period, based upon the stored number of times of performing the control not to start the big win status, control to start the big win status is performed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003335200-A (JP)
Title: Automobile guide stroke structure
Inventor: OKANDA TORU
IPC: B60R21/045
Filed: 2002-05-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automobile guide stroke structure capable of suppressing reaction force to an occupant by a low-cost means.  <P>SOLUTION: This guide stroke structure comprises: an installation bracket 4 whose vehicle end part 4a side disposed in a cabin 2 is fixed, capable of being buckled by shock input from a vehicle rear end part 4b side; a knee protector 8 fixed on the vehicle rear end part 4b side of the installation bracket 4; and a unit 9 supported by the knee protector 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003336586-A (JP)
Title: Screw vacuum pump
Inventor: FUKASE SEIICHI
IPC: F04C18/08
Filed: 2002-05-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a screw vacuum pump capable of restraining the leakage of the fluid to the minimum during operation, and capable of achieving sufficient vacuum condition compared to the conventional product used for the similar purposes.  <P>SOLUTION: A male screw shaft body 2 having a ridge shape almost coinciding with a bottom shape of a female screw groove of a female screw cylinder body 1, a same pitch and a same twisting direction, and having a smaller nominal diameter than the female screw cylinder body is fitted into the female screw cylinder body 1 in such a manner of being completely engaged to each other. An outlet port 8 is formed on a lead direction side of the female screw cylinder body and the male screw shaft body, and an inlet port 7 is formed on an opposite side thereof. The female screw cylinder body and the male screw shaft body are formed to have the same rotational direction an the number of rotations of the male screw is set to be higher so that they are rotated with the respective predetermined number of rotations.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003340213-A (JP)
Title: Filter apparatus
Inventor: NOTSU TOMIO
IPC: B01D37/02
Filed: 2002-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filter apparatus capable of being reduced in cost and in size and capable of shortening the time required in a filter aid layer forming process.   <P>SOLUTION: In the filter apparatus having an upper liquid collection type filter container housing a filter medium, a cylindrical filter medium wherein a nonwoven fabric is densely wound or a cylindrical filter medium made of ceramics is used as the filter medium. The introducing port of the filter container is connected to the outlet side of a pump for sending liquid into the filter container. A filter aid tank is provided to the outside of the filter container. This filter apparatus has a return line for introducing a filtrate into the filter aid tank from a filtrate outlet, which is also used as a gas introducing port, of the filter container, a return valve for opening and closing the return line, a filter aid line for introducing the liquid into the inlet port of the pump from the filter aid tank, a filter aid valve for opening and closing the filter aid line, a precoat line for introducing the liquid into the inlet of the pump from the filtrate outlet of the filter container and a precoat valve for opening and closing the precoat line.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004002942-A (JP)
Title: Atmospheric gas producing device for carburizing and method
Inventor: WADA TOMOHIRO
IPC: C01B32/40
Filed: 2002-06-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an atmospheric gas producing device for carburizing and a method therefor by which the increase and drop in temperatures and the formation of soot in a modification furnace are suppressed, and a modified gas containing carbon monoxide suitable as an atmospheric gas for carburizing at a high concentration can stably be produced.  <P>SOLUTION: In the device wherein a raw material gaseous mixture obtained by mixing hydrocarbon and a source gas such as carbon dioxide and oxygen is introduced into a modification furnace 14 having a catalytic furnace to produce an atmospheric gas for carburizing containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen by catalytic reaction, a modified gas circulation path 18 of circulating part of the modified gas brought into the catalytic reaction in the modification furnace to the inlet side of the modification furnace and mixing the same into a gas before the start of the catalytic reaction or at the initial stage of the catalytic reaction in a confluent way is provided, and part of the modified gas is circulated to the inlet side of the modification furnace, and is mixed into the gas before the start of the catalytic reaction or at the initial stage of the catalytic reaction in a confluent way.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO