baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2017173543-A (JP)
Title: Powder supply device and image forming apparatus
Inventor: UCHIMITSU DAISUKE
IPC: G03G21/14
Filed: 2016-03-23
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability of supply in supplying a powder from a powder storage container compared with a case where the powder storage container is rotated uniformly at a predetermined rotation speed.SOLUTION: A powder supply device comprises a toner storage container 91 and a control part that rotates the toner storage container 91. The toner storage container 91 is formed in a cylindrical shape and has a toner stored therein, includes a projection for moving the toner in the axial direction on the inner peripheral surface, and rotates in the circumferential direction to move the toner in the axial direction. The control part rotates the toner storage container 91 in the circumferential direction, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, changes an operation to rotate the toner storage container 91.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2017180227-A (JP)
Title: Engine device
Inventor: AKEI MASAHIRO
IPC: F02M26/19
Filed: 2016-03-29
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lay out an EGR device as compact as possible at the time when the EGR device is arranged in a Diesel engine.SOLUTION: An engine device 1 includes an EGR device 24 configured to reflux part of exhaust gas, discharged from an exhaust manifold 4, as EGR gas to an intake manifold 3.The EGR device 24 includes a body case 25 configured to mix fresh air and EGR gas and supply them to the suction manifold 3. In the body case 25, a fresh flow direction and an EGR gas flow direction intersects so as to form a right angle or an obtuse angle, and a direction of suctioning mixture gas of EGR gas and fresh air to the suction manifold 4 is a direction intersecting with each of the fresh air flow direction and EGR gas flow direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11
Patent JP-2017181850-A (JP)
Title: Playing apparatus, motion capture method for fingering, and performance support system
Inventor: FUJII Ayato
IPC: G10B3/12
Filed: 2016-03-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a playing apparatus, a motion capture method and a performance support system which can highly accurately motion-capture the fingering of a player by using an infrared system.SOLUTION: A playing apparatus has a playing operator formed to be imaged in black color when the playing operator is imaged by an infrared sensor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017183147-A (JP)
Title: Plasma irradiation system
Inventor: NIWA AKIHIRO
IPC: H05H1/00
Filed: 2016-03-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve practicality of a plasma irradiation system.SOLUTION: In the installation device 12 of a plasma irradiation system 10, an indicator 50 having optical characteristics changing by plasma irradiation is installed in the installation part 160 of an object 36 to be processed by means of a holding head 26. Next, in a plasma irradiation device 14, the indicator 50 is irradiated with plasma by an irradiation head 74, along with the object 36 to be processed. In a measurement device 16, optical characteristics of the indicator 50 installed in the object 36 to be processed are measured by a color-difference meter 124. Consequently, when plasma processing is executed for the object 36 to be processed, judgement can be made automatically, in real time, whether or not plasma processing for the object 36 to be processed has been executed, and practicality of the plasma irradiation system 10 is improved.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017177078-A (JP)
Title: Monolithic separation membrane structure
Inventor: TANAKA HIROSHI
IPC: B01D69/04
Filed: 2016-03-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a monolithic separation membrane structure capable of enhancing durability.SOLUTION: A monolithic separation membrane structure 100 comprises a monolithic substrate 10 and porous membranes 20. The monolithic substrate 10 comprises multiple through-holes 24 including a first through-hole 241 adjacent to an inner surface 11S of a first water collection cell Cw through which permeable components flow out. The porous membranes 20 comprise multiple membranes 20 including a first porous membrane 201 formed inside the first through-hole 241. A ratio of a second average thickness t2 at a side opposite to the inner surface 11S of the first water collection cell Cw in the first porous membrane 201 with respect to a first average thickness t1 at the inner surface 11S side of the first water collection cell Cw in the first porous membrane 201, is 0.6 or greater.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4
Patent JP-2017182703-A (JP)
Title: Wheelchair assisting system
Inventor: SHIOHAMA KAZUTOYO
IPC: G06Q50/30
Filed: 2016-03-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency of an assistance service performed by a station staff to a wheelchair user and to prevent errors.SOLUTION: A wheelchair assisting system 1 includes a getting-on station staff terminal 2, a getting-off station staff terminal 3, a user terminal 4, and a server 5. The server 5 has timetable information including station departure and arrival times of trains. Date and time when a station staff can perform an assistance service is stored in the server 5 by operations of the getting-on station staff terminal 2 and the getting-off station staff terminal 3. The user terminal 4 receives an input of assistance application information including getting-on desired date and time, a getting-on station and a getting-off station, and transmits the inputted assistance application information to the server 5. The server 5 extracts getting-on candidate date and time which is within a prescribed time from the getting-on desired date and time and when a station staff can perform assistance service at the getting-on station and getting-off candidate date and time when the station staff can perform an assistance service at the getting-off station with reference to the timetable information, and displays the getting-on candidate date and time and the getting-off candidate date and time in the getting-on station staff terminal 2 and the getting-off station staff terminal 3, respectively. Thus, the server 5 collects information of date and time when a station staff can perform an assistance service.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017185554-A (JP)
Title: Sheet cutting device and cutter unit
Inventor: BABA KENJI
IPC: B26D1/06
Filed: 2016-04-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet cutting device and a cutter unit capable of smoothly cutting a sheet in always excellent cutting quality corresponding to the number of sheets to be cut and the like.SOLUTION: A sheet cutting device 1 includes: a guide rod 11; and a cutter unit 31 which reciprocally travels along a guide rail 12. The cutter unit has a holder member 32 on which a first blade member 33 having first cutting blades 41a and 41b on left and right sides and a second blade member 34 having second cutting blades 42a and 42b made of curved blades at both the left and right ends are mounted. A blade edge inclination angle α1 of the first cutting blade 41a with respect to a sheet guide surface 7 on which a sheet to be cut is placed and a blade edge inclination angle α2 of the first cutting blade 41b are formed to have different sizes.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017185691-A (JP)
Title: Light-shielding film
Inventor: TANABE JUNYA
IPC: B32B7/02
Filed: 2016-04-05
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light-shielding film capable of obtaining sufficient light-shielding properties.SOLUTION: A light-shielding film includes a base material 2 made of a plastic film and a plurality of printing ink layers 3 laminated respectively in multiple layers on both sides of the base material 2. The plurality of printing ink layers 3 laminated on a single surface of the base material 2 have an optical density of 3.5 or more. The number of generated pin holes is less than 1.0 per 625 mm, the pin holes appearing on all the printing ink layers 3 arranged on both sides of the base material 2 and allowing light to pass in a thickness direction of the base material 2.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017188355-A (JP)
Title: Battery pack and vehicle
Inventor: NAKAJO YUKI
IPC: H01M2/10
Filed: 2016-04-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery pack capable of suppressing short-circuiting while suppressing reduction in space efficiency, and a vehicle.SOLUTION: A battery pack 10 comprises: multiple battery modules 20; a control part 30 which controls the battery modules 20; a housing 40 in which the battery modules 20 and the control part 30 are accommodated; and a first connector 50 for connecting the battery modules 20 to the outside. The housing 40 includes: a first accommodation part 41 in which the battery modules 20 are accommodated; and a second accommodation part 42 in which the control part 30 is accommodated. The first accommodation part 41 includes a pair of sidewall parts 43 and a top face 44. The second accommodation part 42 is protrusively provided on the top face 44. The sidewall parts 43 include protrusions 43p protruding from the top face 44. The top face 44 includes an enclosed region 44r that is enclosed by the second accommodation part 42 and the protrusions 43p. The first connector 50 is provided in the enclosed region 44r.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2017191140-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus and control method of the same
Inventor: SHIBATA NOBUHIRO
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2016-04-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus capable of capturing an image with high picture quality while improving performance of an image blur correction device.SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus includes: image blur correction means which corrects image blur of a subject image formed on an image pickup device 106 by moving an optical element 103 for image blur correction in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis; focusing control means 123, 124 which calculates a contrast shape by using AF evaluation values at positions at a predetermined interval of a focus lens 105 moving in the optical axis direction and controls focusing in such a manner that the position of the focus lens 105 where the contrast shape is maximum is regarded as a position where luminous fluxes converge on an imaging plane of the image pickup device 106; and correction means 126 which corrects the position of the focus lens 105 when the AF evaluation value is acquired or corrects the acquired AF evaluation value depending on the position of the optical element 103 in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis, the position detected by a position detection means 117.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2016164796-A (JP)
Title: Social networking service system, server, and image display method
Inventor: TSUKAMOTO AKIHIRO
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2016-04-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase interest of a user by integrating a painting conversion technology with Social Networking Service (SNS), and to increase the interest of the user by conversely integrating the SNS with the painting conversion technology.SOLUTION: An image display method includes the steps of: reading a profile image from a member area 100 of oneself (a member) in response to a request from a member terminal (step S302); detecting that the most frequent conversion type is which conversion type of oil painting touch, watercolor touch, pastel touch and so on, on the basis of first ranked information stored as a conversion frequency and type of a painting in member attribute information about a friend 1 which is the first friend (step S304); subjecting, to painting conversion, the profile image of the member read in the step S302 by the conversion type for the friend 1 detected in the step S304, and storing the image in an area of a profile screen area for the friend (step S306).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8
Patent JP-2016203368-A (JP)
Title: Cutting insert and cutting tool
Inventor: SASAKI Yasutake
IPC: B23B51/00
Filed: 2016-04-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cutting insert which suppresses the generation of chipping and a defect, and a cutting tool.SOLUTION: The cutting insert has a substantially-polygonal first end face, a second end face which opposes the first end face, a peripheral side face which extends between the first end face and the second end face, and a cutting blade at a cross ridge line between the first end face and the peripheral side face. The cutting insert also has a base part and a tip nose part to which a cutting blade member is firmly attached. The cutting blade member includes a sintered body which contains at least either of cubic boron nitride and diamond. A peripheral side face which constitutes a side between a first corner part and at least one adjoining corner part in a plane view has at least one recess which is recessed inward with respect to a polygonal virtual contour shape S whose base part is extended, and includes one end part of the cutting blade member. In the recess, a distance between one end part and the virtual contour shape S in a plane view is 0.03 mm or more and 0.6 mm or less.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017193691-A (JP)
Title: Adhesive film for multilayer printed board
Inventor: MATSUURA MASAHARU
IPC: C09J161/04
Filed: 2016-04-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adhesive film for a multilayer printed board excellent in embedding property of unevenness even when a silica filler is highly filled.SOLUTION: An adhesive film for a multilayer printed board has a resin composition layer obtained by layer formation of a resin composition containing (A) a novolak-based phenolic resin having a dispersion ratio (Mw/Mn) between a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1.05-1.8, (B) an epoxy resin represented by a general formula (1) and (C) an inorganic filler, on a support film, where an average particle size of (C) the inorganic filler in the resin composition layer is 0.1 μm or more, and a content of (C) the inorganic filler is 20-95 mass% in a resin solid content.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2017198387-A (JP)
Title: Expansion valve
Inventor: YANAGIYA HIDEYUKI
IPC: F16K1/32
Filed: 2016-04-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an expansion valve enabling vibration control of a valve element and a support member by guiding the support member for supporting the valve element.SOLUTION: An expansion valve includes: a valve body having a valve hole for communicating an inlet port to which a refrigerant flows in with an outlet port from which the refrigerant flows out; a valve element for adjusting the amount of the refrigerant flowing in the valve hole; a power element mounted to the valve body to drive the valve element via a valve rod; a support member for supporting the valve element; a coil spring for pressing the valve element in the valve closing direction via the support member; and an adjusting screw having a guide section and screwed to the valve body to adjust the pressing force of the coil spring. The support member includes a sliding section that is disposed to be slidable in the opening/closing direction of the valve element relative to the guide section.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017200112-A (JP)
Title: Communication device, system including communication device, and program
Inventor: NOGAMI HIDEKATSU
IPC: G06K7/10
Filed: 2016-04-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication device and the like that identify a tag (work) which is to be an object of a communication process by using a simple configuration.SOLUTION: A control unit of a communication device performs integration processing, for each RF tag passing through a communication available area in the vicinity of the communication unit, to integrate strength of reception signals received from the RF tag by a communication unit (S5). In the integration processing, integration is performed while weighting such that a calculated integration value gets larger than a previous integration value whenever strength of each reception signal is integrated. When the RF tag moves to a predetermined position in the communication available area (S9), an identifier of an RF tag with the largest integration value among the integration values of the respective RF tags is transmitted to an upper-level apparatus.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8
Patent JP-2016145646-A (JP)
Title: Methods for storage and transportation of natural gas in liquid solvents
Inventor: HALL BRUCE
IPC: F17C11/00
Filed: 2016-05-02
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods for storage and transportation of natural gas in liquid solvents.SOLUTION: Described herein are systems and methods to create and store a liquid phase mix of natural gas absorbed in light-hydrocarbon solvents under temperatures and pressures that facilitate improved volumetric ratios of the stored natural gas as compared with CNG and PLNG at the same temperatures and pressures of less than -80°F to about -120°F and about 300 psig to about 900 psig. Preferred solvents include ethane, propane and butane, and natural gas liquid (NGL) and liquid pressurized gas (LPG) solvents. Also described herein are systems and methods for receiving raw production or semi-conditioned natural gas, conditioning the gas, producing a liquid phase mix of natural gas absorbed in a light-hydrocarbon solvent, and transporting the mix to a market where pipeline quality gas or fractionated products are delivered in a manner utilizing less energy than CNG, PLNG or LNG systems with better cargo-mass to containment-mass ratio for the natural gas component than CNG systems.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9
Patent JP-2017162787-A (JP)
Title: Lighting apparatus for vehicle
Inventor: AHN BYOUNG SUK
IPC: F21W107/10
Filed: 2016-05-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting apparatus for a vehicle, which is configured such that polarized beams emitted from a plurality of light sources are moved to a single light emitting part, and thereby allows a reduced configuration of an optical system size and increases the degree of freedom in design so that the layout is reduced and the manufacturing costs and the weight are decreased.SOLUTION: A lighting apparatus for a vehicle includes: a light source part emitting polarized beams in different directions from each other; a filter part situated such that the polarized beams emitted from the light source part enter, and configured to reflect either one polarized beam of the polarized beams emitted from the light source part and transmit the other polarized beam; a condensing and reflecting part configured such that the polarized beam moved through the filter part enters and the entered polarized beam is condensed in focus; and a light emitting part situated on a path on which a focal point is formed by the condensing and reflecting part, and configured such that the entered polarized beam is emitted having a color phase.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017208977-A (JP)
Title: Rotor manufacturing method and rotor
Inventor: KAWAMOTO MICHIO
IPC: H02K1/27
Filed: 2016-05-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotor manufacturing method capable of obtaining a rotor of which cogging torque is reduced by a simple manufacturing process.SOLUTION: A rotor manufacturing method is a manufacturing method of a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets 36 arranged so as to be inclined from an axial direction of a rotor core. The rotor manufacturing method includes a step for manufacturing the permanent magnet 36 and a step for arranging the plurality of permanent magnets 36 on the outer periphery of the rotor core. The step for manufacturing the permanent magnet 36 includes a step for forming a shape in which plane view of a first face 41 and a second face 42 becomes a parallelogram, a third face 43 and a fourth face 44 are parallel with each other and a fifth face 45 and a sixth face 46 are planarly extended in a direction from the third face 43 to the fourth face 44 on a magnet block. The step for arranging the plurality of permanent magnets 36 on the outer periphery of the rotor core includes a step for allowing the fifth face 45 and the sixth face 46 to face each other between the adjacent permanent magnets 36.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 17
Patent JP-2017206661-A (JP)
Title: Carbon-containing solid fuel gasification power generation equipment and method for adjusting gas for drying the carbon-containing solid fuel
Inventor: YOSHIDA SHOGO
IPC: C10J3/46
Filed: 2016-05-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carbon-containing solid fuel gasification power generation equipment capable of expanding the range of the kinds of the carbon-containing solid fuel to be used, and a method for adjusting a gas for drying the carbon-containing solid fuel.SOLUTION: A high temperature exhaust gas 25H is extracted from the inside 91 of a furnace in a high temperature extraction position 30H. A low temperature exhaust gas 25L is extracted from the inside 91 of the furnace in a low temperature extraction position 30L at least with a part of a heat exchange part 94 between the downstream side of the high temperature extraction position 30H and the high temperature extraction position 30H held. Further, in a high high temperature extraction position 30HH with a part of at least a heat exchange part 92 between a gas turbine 8 and a denitrification apparatus 93 and also in a space with the high temperature extraction position 30H held, the high high temperature exhaust gas 25 HH is extracted from the inside 91 of the furnace. When the exhaust gases 25H, 25HH and 25L are mixed, the flow rate of the high high temperature exhaust gas 25 HH to be fed to at least one exhaust gas is adjusted in such a manner that the gas temperature of at least one exhaust gas of the high temperature exhaust gas 25H or the low temperature exhaust gas 25L reaches a prescribed one.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2017212591-A (JP)
Title: Control apparatus, control method, and program
Inventor: TANAKA KATSUMASA
IPC: H04N21/266
Filed: 2016-05-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a time and labor of an operator who configures a system for generating a virtual viewpoint image.SOLUTION: A control apparatus in a system which generates a virtual viewpoint image on the basis of images captured with plural cameras for imaging a subject from plural directions comprises: acquisition means for acquiring game information relating to a game to be imaged with the cameras; holding means for holding the game information acquired by the acquisition means and configuration information of the system in association; and configuration means for configuring the system on the basis of the information held by the holding means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017210102-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle Monitor System
Inventor: IZUMI SUMIYASU
IPC: B60R1/00
Filed: 2016-05-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle monitor system which can secure visibility of a subsequent vehicle, and which allows a user to grasp a position of the subsequent vehicle to an own vehicle.SOLUTION: A vehicle monitor system comprises: a detection part for detecting a vehicle which exists on a rear side of an own vehicle; a rear side imaging part for imaging a prescribed angle range on a rear side of the own vehicle; a display part which is provided in the own vehicle, and displays an image imaged by the rear side imaging part; and an image processing part for extracting a first image in a first angle range, with a rear side of the own vehicle as a reference, from the images in the prescribed angle range imaged by the rear side imaging part, and displaying the first image on the display part. The image processing part extracts the first image and a second image in a second angle range, the second angle being larger than the first angle, with the rear side as a reference, from the images in the prescribed angle range, when the vehicle is detected by the detection part, and displaying the extracted images on the display part.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1