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Patent JP-2003215120-A (JP)
Title: Chemotaxis observing chip
Inventor: GOSHOO YASUHIRO
IPC: G01N35/08
Filed: 2002-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chemotaxis observing chip with which cell can be observed easily and make the degree of freedom of design for the width of a passage large.  <P>SOLUTION: This chemotaxis observing chip is provided with a well 31 filled with a chemotactic factor and a well 32 filled with cells which have chemotaxis. A channel 4 communicated the well 31 with the well 32 is arranged between the well 31 and the well 32. A plurality of passages 41 are arranged in the channel 4. The sidewall surfaces of the passages 41 are positioned substantially vertically to the bottom by anisortropic dry etching.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002269574-A (JP)
Title: Run length based connected component and contour tracking for enhancing performance of circled area extracting algorithm
Inventor: GUO JINHONG K
IPC: G06V30/184
Filed: 2002-01-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform an image processing in a connected component analysis and contour following for distinguishing a contour in the image data of pixels. SOLUTION: Image data are expressed with a grid composed of columns and rows. A scan order is set for the grid and a parent and child relation is given between continuous pixels in adjacent rows and a brother relation is given between noncontinuous pixels in same row. A run data structure regulating a run element according to row position, start column position and finish column position thereof is established in a memory. The image data is scanned according to scan order, to distinguish continuous pixel in a designated state as a specific run element. The parent and child relation and the brother relation of the distinguished run element are found. A run data structure is made into a population with a row position, a start column position and a finish column position of a designated run element and the master and slave relation, and a brother relation of a designated run element.  A contour in an in the image data of pixels are distinguished with using the run data structure which is made into a population and searching a master and slave relation and inter- slave relation.
Patent JP-2003204001-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and operation method thereof
Inventor: TAKEUCHI YUJI
IPC: H01L27/115
Filed: 2002-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device with a nonvolatile storage circuit capable of reducing the dispersion of a threshold voltage of a memory cell and preventing malfunctions, and to provide its operation method.  <P>SOLUTION: The nonvolatile storage circuit of the semiconductor device is provided with first, second, third and fourth memory cells arrayed in a first direction; a first bit line extending over the first memory cell in a second direction and connected to the second memory cell; a second bit line extending over the second memory cell in the second direction and connected to the first memory cell; a third bit line extending over the third memory cell in the second direction and connected to the third memory cell; and a fourth bit line extending over the fourth memory cell in the second direction and connected to the fourth memory cell.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003228438-A (JP)
Title: Compact portable terminal device
Inventor: SUZUKI NORIYOSHI
IPC: G06F1/16
Filed: 2002-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply, quickly perform opening/storing operation, and also to prevent misoperations and achieve miniaturization.  <P>SOLUTION: A compact portable terminal device 100 is provided with a case body 101, in which a large portion of components of the device are arranged and stored, and for example, which is formed substantially in a rectangular solid shape; and a storing case 102, which is the case capable of storing and drawing slidably in the case body 101, and in which part of the components associated with users such as the components operated by the users are arranged and stored.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003226912-A (JP)
Title: Device and method for transferring steel slab
Inventor: KANEKO UNAI
IPC: C21D9/00
Filed: 2002-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for transferring a steel slab in which the total working time is shortened to reduce a large amount of heat emitted with time when the steel slab is turned around the axis thereof in the longitudinal direction after it is extracted from a heating furnace, and carried to a next step such as a heat-retaining furnace and a rolling mill, and a method.  <P>SOLUTION: In the steel slab transferring device which scoops the steel slab heated in the heating furnace by a ram moving forward/backward of the steel slab, and transfers it onto a carrying table from the inside or a part in the vicinity of the heating furnace, a turning mechanism to turn the steel slab around the axis of the steel slab to be transferred in the longitudinal direction is built in the transferring device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003227678-A (JP)
Title: Insulated casing for refrigerator
Inventor: NAGASAKI TADASHI
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 2002-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To plastic-mold an inner box of an insulated casing in a trouble-fee manner with the use of a molding die while changing the shape of the inner box for appropriate drain disposal of drainage caused in a chamber of a refrigerator.  <P>SOLUTION: For, for example, a refrigerator mounted in a beverage dispenser to keep a BIB beverage cold, the insulated casing of the refrigerator 4 comprises the plastic-molded inner box 4a with an open front, an outer box 4b covering the inner box, and a heat insulator 4c filling the gap between the inner box and the outer box. The inner box has a vertically two-sectioned structure wherein an upper box section 4a-1 and a lower box section 4a-2 are molded individually. The lower box section is dished at a bottom wall, and the bottom thereof is provided with a drain hole 4d, so that drainage caused in the chamber with a cold reserving operation of the refrigerator is subjected to appropriate drain disposal via the drain hole.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003235158-A (JP)
Title: System, method, and program for managing energy supply
Inventor: GYOTEN HISAAKI
IPC: H01M8/00
Filed: 2002-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that it is difficult to manage energy supply on an area-by-area basis.  <P>SOLUTION: An energy supply management system comprises an electric water heater 1A for supplying heat energy (for hot water supply) by utilizing a source of electric power procurement selected from a plurality of thermal power generators 2X and 2Y as sources of procurement; and a management device 10 and an information server 20 for managing the selection of the thermal power generators 2X and 2Y according to the predetermined rules.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003244729-A (JP)
Title: Method for evaluating image quality of solid-state imaging element
Inventor: HOTTA KAZUHIRO
IPC: H04N5/335
Filed: 2002-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of easily evaluating image quality of a solid-state imaging element with high accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: The sensitivity of each of all pixels of a solid-state imaging element is stored the prescribed number of times, a mean value of the sensitivity of the pixels is calculated on the basis of the stored sensitivity, the average sensitivity is used for the pixel sensitivity, the pixel sensitivity is used to calculate the standard deviation by each pixel, the standard deviation is used for a pixel noise level, the S/N by each pixel is calculated on the basis of the pixel noise level, and the pixel sensitivity, when the S/N of a pixel is a prescribed S/N standard value or below, the pixel is discriminated to be an off-specification pixel, and when the number of off-specification pixels is a first setting threshold value or over, the solid-state imaging element is discriminated to be an off-specification solid-state imaging element. When the number of off-specification pixels is smaller than the first setting threshold value, the solid-state imaging element is discriminated to be a primary acceptance off- specification solid-state imaging element, then the standard deviation of the S/N by all pixels is calculated among the primary acceptance solid-state imaging elements, when the standard deviation is a prescribed second threshold value or over, the solid-state imaging element is discriminated to be finally an off-specification element.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003242113-A (JP)
Title: Communication system, communication method, program, and server device
Inventor: FUJIKI TOSHIHIRO
IPC: G06F21/33
Filed: 2002-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make omissible re-inputting of certification information in a second application means in using service of a server device using the second application means started by a first application means and make avoidable a risk that a user having no right to use service provided by the server device uses the service of the server device using the second application means.  <P>SOLUTION: A computer device 20 has the first application means 21 and the second application means 26. Service of the server device 10 is usable by use of the application means 21 or 26. The first application means 21 comprises a key code generating means 22 to generate a key code after the server device receiving the certification information sent certifies the first application means 21, and a key code transferring means 25 to transfer the key code to the second application means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002310969-A (JP)
Title: Electronic odor sensor and method for detecting odor
Inventor: BAO ZHENAN
IPC: G01N27/12
Filed: 2002-02-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a modified electronic odor sensor. SOLUTION: The electronic odor sensor contains first and second amplifiers, a biasing network and a device so connected as to receive output signals from the first and second amplifiers. The device is so arranged as to correlate the output signals received to the presence or non-presence of the odor. The first and second amplifiers have first and second organic semiconductor layers respectively, and generate output signals responding to the electric conductivity of the respective organic semiconductor layers. The electric conductivity of the organic semiconductor layers corresponds to the existence of voltages or odors applied to those related among the amplifiers. The biasing network applies voltages to the amplifiers.
Patent JP-2003250126-A (JP)
Title: Image recording apparatus and control method thereof
Inventor: SUWA TETSUYA
IPC: G06F3/0481
Filed: 2002-02-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem on operation of a conventional image recording apparatus wherein a user judges that an operation intended by the user is not executed, resulting in instructing other operation because it takes a long time before a major image is displayed.  <P>SOLUTION: The image recording apparatus records an image on a medium to be recorded on the basis of image data from an image data source, when a decode processing section 700 decodes encoded image data from the data source, whether or not a thumbnail image included in the encoded image data is decoded is discriminated (S4), and a display form of the image displayed on a display section is revised depending on the result of discrimination (S5, S6).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003254074-A (JP)
Title: Variable capacity turbocharger
Inventor: YOKOYAMA TAKAO
IPC: F02B37/24
Filed: 2002-02-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variable capacity turbocharger having good operability and controllability and ensuring a good fluid characteristic from nozzle vanes to a turbine wheel by causing moments acting on the nozzle vane to be maintained in an opening direction, and making it possible to bring a pivot position closer to a trailing edge.  <P>SOLUTION: The variable capacity turbocharger comprises a scroll passage surrounding the turbine wheel to let in a drive fluid; and the plurality of nozzle vanes disposed on the inner periphery of the scroll passage while in circumferentially equally spaced apart relationship and mounted in a manner enabling the vanes to be controlled to rotate about the pivot, with adjacent nozzle vanes forming a nozzle throat through which the drive fluid flows into the turbine wheel from the scroll passage. The nozzle vane is so formed that the form of the hydrodynamically designed nozzle vane has formed therein a deformed part where a backward negative pressure surface is cut over a predetermined distance from the leading edge of the hydrodynamically designed nozzle vane to reduce the vane thickness.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003245334-A (JP)
Title: Volatilization element
Inventor: TANIGUCHI KOICHI
IPC: A61L9/12
Filed: 2002-02-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a volatilization element which facilitates the selection of the material of a molded container by keeping the volatilization rate of a volatile medicine constant.  <P>SOLUTION: A medicine composition having the volatile medicine carried by a carrier is housed in a regular-shaped plastic molded container. The plastic molded container is provided with at least one through hole and the whole area of the through hole should be 5 to 150% of the whole area of the medicine composition. The ratio (a/b<SP>1/2</SP>) of the distance (a) from the wall surface of any one of the through holes to the chemical composition to the root of the area (b) of the through hole should be 0.05 to 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003245684-A (JP)
Title: Sewage treatment method by intermittent air diffusion using membrane type air diffusing tube
Inventor: OGAWA HIROYASU
IPC: C02F3/12
Filed: 2002-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for purifying sewage by applying a membrane type air diffusing tube having a slit hole to the sewage whose discharge is changed largely such as industrial wastewater and domestic wastewater, diffusing air stably and intermittently over a long period without closing the hole by low ventilation energy, and implementing activated sludge treatment and biomembrane contact oxidation treatment.  <P>SOLUTION: In the water treatment method, when the sewage whose discharge is changed largely such as the industrial wastewater and the domestic wastewater is subjected to the activated sludge treatment and the biomembrane contact oxidation treatment, the membrane type air diffusing tube 35 mN/m or below in surface energy, 0.4-1.0 mm in slit hole length, and 1,000-4,000 Pa in pressure loss is arranged in a treatment tank for intermittent air diffusion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003248014-A (JP)
Title: Shock detection sheet and delivery slip with shock detection function
Inventor: MINOWA TOSHIYUKI
IPC: H01L41/08
Filed: 2002-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shock detection sheet which is attached easily to a delivery object, such as a precision instrument and which can fully grasp the history of its shock.  <P>SOLUTION: The shock detection sheet is provided with a shock sensor (2) used to detect the shock; a noncontact IC module (3) used to record shock information detected by the shock sensor together with time information; a battery (5) used to supply electric power to the IC module; a switch (6) used to change over a connection across the battery and the IC module; and a sheetlike board (7) on which the shock sensor, the IC module, the battery and the switch are installed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003259668-A (JP)
Title: Ultrasonic motor
Inventor: SEGAWA TERUO
IPC: H02N2/00
Filed: 2002-03-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultrasonic motor which is capable of generating large rotating torque.  <P>SOLUTION: The ultrasonic motor includes a driving unit 20 composed of first and second straight forward units 30A, 30B combined in an orthogonal direction having a prism atic piezoelectric element as a thrust source, a control means for combining motions of the first and second straight forward moving units and causing eccentric motion to occur in the driving unit, and transmission mechanisms 31, 34 for converting the eccentric motion to rotational motion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003260926-A (JP)
Title: Heat accumulation system for vehicle
Inventor: AIKAWA TAIICHI
IPC: B60H1/08
Filed: 2002-03-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a consumption power of vapor compression refrigerator while promoting warm-up.  <P>SOLUTION: When a temperature of cooling water is high, an absorbing body 5 is heated by the cooling water and water vapor is eliminated to accumulate a heat. When the temperature of cooling water is low, water vapor is adsorbed to heat the cooling water by an adsorption heat while water is evaporated and a cooling medium of the vapor compression type refrigerator 8 is cooled. Thereby, while a promotion of the warming up is realized, a consumption power of the vapor compression type refrigerator can be reduced. At this time, since an evaporation latent heat of water is large, i.e., 2,500 kJ/kg, a heat accumulator comprising an absorption chamber 4 and a liquid storage chamber 10 can be made small.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003262714-A (JP)
Title: Electro-optic device, method for manufacturing the same, film deposition device and electronic apparatus
Inventor: KIGUCHI HIROSHI
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2002-03-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent increase in the time for manufacturing process or its complication.  <P>SOLUTION: Liquid drops are injected in a specified direction toward a region 13 on a substrate 12 divided into a plurality of regions. The spraying direction of the liquid drops is controlled on the basis of the size of the region 13.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002308776-A (JP)
Title: Medicinal composition for treating human prostatic adenocarcinoma
Inventor: JOHNSON RANDALL K
IPC: A61P13/08
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicinal composition useful in the therapy for human prostatic adenocarcinoma. SOLUTION: The medical composition for treating human prostatic adenocarcinoma contains a 5-α-reductase inhibiting compound such as 17β-(N-t- butylcarboxyamido)-5-α-androst-1-ene-4-aza-3-one and a pharmaceutically permissible carrier.
Patent JP-2003259757-A (JP)
Title: Basket for fishing bank
Inventor: KATAOKA SHUHO
IPC: A01K61/00
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a basket for a fishing bank, having a structure with a low product unit price and exhibiting a large economical effect.  <P>SOLUTION: This basket for the fishing bank of which each surface is formed by a wire net, is provided by forming each of the side surface parts 2 with an upper wire net part 3 in the upper side and a lower wire net part 4 in the lower side, and the upper wire net part 3 with the wire net of a small mesh (a) and the lower wire net part 4 with the wire net of a large mesh (b).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003261564-A (JP)
Title: Bipyridine derivative and bipyridinium derivative
Inventor: YAMASHITA TAKAO
IPC: G03G5/06
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a compound having high electron affinity with a high qunatum yield.  <P>SOLUTION: The pyridine derivative is expressed by general formula (I), has the high electron affinity and the high quantum yield and is useful as an electron transfer material, a photocatalyst, an n-type semiconductor, a metal ligand, a proton acceptor, a solar cell an a material for electrochromism. The pyridine derivative emits blue fluorescence, therefore, it is also useful as a fluorescent material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002327609-A (JP)
Title: Compact planing boat
Inventor: YATAGAI YASUAKI
IPC: F01M11/03
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact planing boat having a miniaturized engine and improved in maintenance thereof. SOLUTION: In this compact planing boat 1, the output of a crank shaft 18 arranged in a crank case 13 is taken out through a drive shaft 20 arranged in parallel with the crank shaft, and this compact planing boat is loaded with the engine 5 having a cylinder block 14 provided with cylinders in parallel with each other along the progressing directional axis of a hull. An intake device 15 is arranged at a side of the cylinder block 14, and a housing part 23 for the drive shaft 20 for driving an oil pump is arranged under the intake device 15, directing an oil filter 29 in the width direction of the hull.
Patent JP-2003261767-A (JP)
Title: Composition and seamless belt given by using the same
Inventor: INUKAI TADASHI
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition having excellent heat resistance, mechanical strength, and transparency, having low moisture dependency, and therefore having stable electrical conductivity, and to provide a seamless belt capable of being used as a carrier belt and a fixation belt of an electrophotographic reproduction machine and a laser printer, by using the composition.  <P>SOLUTION: This composition contains at least (A) a polyamide-imide resin and (B) an antistatic agent, wherein the polyamide-imide resin has a glass transition temperature of 70-400°C, a logarithmic viscosity number of 0.4-3.0 dL/g when measured in an N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone solution of a concentration of 5 g/L and a light transmittance of ≥80% when measured at a wavelength of 550 nm after formed into a film of a thickness of 50 μm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003260498-A (JP)
Title: Sludge treatment method and sludge treatment equipment
Inventor: KOMATSU TOSHIHIRO
IPC: C02F11/02
Filed: 2002-03-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sludge treatment method which enables the miniaturization of sludge treatment equipment, facilitates maintenance and control and provides a high sludge volume reducing ratio by stable biological treatment, and the sludge treatment equipment using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: Biological sludge, which is generated by the biological treatment of organic wastewater in a biological treatment process, is guided into a reaction tank and subjected to usual aeration in the reaction tank by a predetermined amount of air to be aerobically treated. The aerobic treatment is performed by ensuring a predetermined solid matter stagnation time equal to or longer than the solid matter stagnation time required for usual aerobic digestion to accelerate the autolysis and solubilization of the biological sludge. Subsequently, new biological sludge is introduced into the reaction tank from a biological treatment process and restrictively aerated by a restricted amount of air capable of forming an oxygen-free state to biologically denitrify nitrate nitrogen and nitrite nitrogen formed by aerobic treatment and a cycle again returning aerobic treatment is repeated to reduce the volume of sludge.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002268169-A (JP)
Title: Silver halide photographic sensitive material
Inventor: YAGIHARA MORIO
IPC: G03C1/09
Filed: 2002-03-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silver halide photographic sensitive material having little fog, high sensitivity and superior age stability in storage. SOLUTION: In the silver halide photographic sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on the base, at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one β-selenolactam compound. Preferably, the β-selenolactam compound has formula (IV), wherein R41 is an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group or H and R42 -R45 are each H, an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic or silyl group.