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Patent JP-2004209535-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing line and manufacturing method for steel
Inventor: OZEKAWA ATSUSHI
IPC: B21B45/02
Filed: 2003-01-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing line and a manufacturing method for steel by which various steel materials different in mechanical property can easily be manufactured at high productivity.  <P>SOLUTION: A first cooling system and a second cooling system are arranged in this order away form each other on the downstream side of a hot rolling mill and whether the steel is cooled by the first cooling system or not is selected in accordance with the mechanical property of the steel to be manufactured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004211483-A (JP)
Title: Handrail structure of stair
Inventor: KATADA KAZUYA
IPC: E04F11/18
Filed: 2003-01-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a handrail structure of a stair which can be applied to stairs having various slopes by using the same kinds of parts so as to obtain various advantages by the industrialization.  <P>SOLUTION: This handrail structure comprises a spandrel wall 1 of a stair 41, a handrail coping 2 installed along the spandrel wall 1, and a support member 3 projected out from the spandrel wall 1 to the side of handrail coping 2 for supporting it, and the handrail coping 2 is supported by the support member 3 in a state of permitting to change and adjust the slope of the coping.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004219146-A (JP)
Title: Map retrieving device
Inventor: SUGAWARA YOSHIHIKO
IPC: G09B29/10
Filed: 2003-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a map retrieving device with which the user can reduce the labor and time required for retrieving a spot by retrieving a divided area as an object to be retrieved.  <P>SOLUTION: This map retrieving device stores information 1a for retrieval used for retrieving the location of an objective spot on road map data by classifying the information 1a at every retrieving area and specific information 4b used for specifying a retrieving area to be retrieved correspondingly to each retrieving area. When the user selects one registered data of address book data 4a as retrieval information, this retrieving device specifies an area to be retrieved by comparing address information contained in the registered data and the specific information 4b with each other. Then the device retrieves the location of the objective spot by using information 1b for retrieval belonging the specified area to be retrieved. Since the device can automatically switch the area to be retrieved to a retrieving area containing the spot to be retrieved based on the address information and specific information 4b in this way, the labor and time of the user can be reduced at the time of retrieving the spot.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004220241-A (JP)
Title: Emergency report system with position confirmation function
Inventor: TANIE KATSUNORI
IPC: H04W4/90
Filed: 2003-01-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify a position by use of field intensity information for specifying the present position of an emergency report slave machine.  <P>SOLUTION: This system comprises a radio relay having field intensity measuring function and a master machine collecting the field intensity information of the relay to specify the position of the slave machine. According to this, the slave machine position can be estimated from the intensity information of the radio wave from the slave machine and reported to a user.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003216198-A (JP)
Title: Vocoder asic (application specific integrated circuit)
Inventor: MCDONOUGH JOHN G
IPC: G06F5/01
Filed: 2003-01-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vocoder ASIC (application specific integrated circuit).  <P>SOLUTION: A method and apparatus to be used for the vocoder constituted in an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is disclosed. The apparatus contains a DSP core (4) that performs computations in accordance with a reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture. The circuit further includes a specifically designed slave processor referred to as the minimization processor (6). The apparatus further comprises a specifically designed normalization circuitry.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004221332-A (JP)
Title: Active carbon composition for electrode of electric double layer capacitor and its manufacturing method
Inventor: HORIGUCHI TETSUYA
IPC: C01B32/336
Filed: 2003-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an active carbon composition for an electrode of an electric double layer capacitor that can improve its capacitance per unit weight and unit volume, and to provide its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: A cured product made of thermosetting resin that is obtained by additional condensating the reaction of at least one or more of a group composed of cresols, xylenols and methyl phenols with aldehydes is used as a material for active carbon, and the gas activation of a water steam, carbon dioxide, etc. or chemical activation using metal compounds, inorganic salts, etc., or activation using their combination is applied.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004221957-A (JP)
Title: Speaker
Inventor: SUMIYAMA MASAHIDE
IPC: H04R9/04
Filed: 2003-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a speaker system compact by attaching an electronic circuit into the speaker.  <P>SOLUTION: The speaker 75 comprises a magnetic circuit 24, a voice coil 28 coupled with the circuit 24 in such a way that it is fitted in a magnetic gap 25 of the circuit 24, and a diaphragm coupled with the voice coil 28. The electronic circuit section 70 is attached to this diaphragm, and its receiving circuit is coupled to supply an output audio signal to the voice coil 28.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004219837-A (JP)
Title: Shutter device and lens-fitted photographic film unit
Inventor: MIKAMI TAKESHI
IPC: G03B9/08
Filed: 2003-01-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize the speed of a shutter blade when the blade turns back in spite of variance of kick force.  <P>SOLUTION: One end 42 of a shutter blade 37 is kicked around a shaft 41 to thereby cause an opening and closing part 43 at the other end to close a shutter aperture across a photographing optical axis. A beveled member is disposed in an open position where the shutter blade 37 completely opens the shutter aperture. A bevel 55 of the beveled member slides in a part of the shutter blade 37 in the open position to gradually press the shutter blade 37 toward the front of the photographing optical axis and to change the trajectory of the shutter blade 37 toward the optical axis direction, thereby making the angular speed of the shutter blade 37 zero in the open position which is a turning back point.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004216783-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: SHIMIZU YASUMITSU
IPC: H04N1/21
Filed: 2003-01-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of efficiently performing transmission of information (including information necessary for controlling an image signal and devices) between devices in the image forming apparatus heretofore employed.  <P>SOLUTION: This image forming apparatus comprises an image input means 1, a memory means 5 for storing an image signal input from the image input means 1, an image output means 2, and a transmission means 7 for transmitting the image signal input from the image input means 1 or stored in the memory means to another image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus further comprises an operating means 4 that designates a time period until an input/output operation of the image signal is completed when an input or output operation of the image signal is requested, and a system control means 3 having a function of judging that the operation of input/output of data can be operated within the time period until the input/output operation of the designated image signal is completed, and notifying of the judged result through the operating means 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004143577-A (JP)
Title: Surface treatment method for ornament, ornament and watch
Inventor: KAWAKAMI ATSUSHI
IPC: C23C28/00
Filed: 2003-01-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ornament which has a whitish golden color and can maintain a superior aesthetic appearance for a long period of time and to provide a surface treatment method which can provide the ornament, and to provide a watch having the ornament.  <P>SOLUTION: The objective surface treatment method for the ornament has a step of forming an underlayer 40 on at least one part of the surface of a substrate 2, and a step of forming a film 3 composed of an Au-Pd-Fe-In system alloy containing 0.1 to 10wt% Pd, 0.1 to 8wt% Fe and 0.1 to 10.0wt% In by a dry plating method. The underlayer 40 is a buffer layer for reducing the potential difference between the substrate 2 and the film 3. The film 3 is preferably formed by the dry plating method using a plurality of targets varying in metal compositions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004220475-A (JP)
Title: Device, system, and method for managing contribution reservation
Inventor: KOBAYASHI NORIO
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2003-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device, a system, and a method for managing contribution reservation for reserving financial aid mainly to disaster victims in occurrence of a disaster, which can be promptly and appropriately operated in the occurrence of the disaster and can perform mutual aid among participants of the contribution reservation system according to situations of a case when the disaster actually occurs.  <P>SOLUTION: Attribute information regarding the participants of the contribution reservation system and information regarding the number of reserved lots of contribution are registered in a participant information storage part 11. Distribution definition of contribution according to the contents of the disaster is determined in a contribution definition storage part 12, a contribution distribution calculation part 13 authorizes the disaster victims among the participants by referring to participant information of the participant information storage part 11 and the distribution definition of the contribution definition storage part 12 and calculates the distribution of charitable contribution corresponding to the number of reserved lots to each disaster victim.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004227067-A (JP)
Title: Vending machine
Inventor: TOKUTE YOSHINOBU
IPC: G07F7/08
Filed: 2003-01-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vending machine that, by means of a noncontact card, facilitates a selection of an article corresponding to the owner's characteristics or an article purchased in the past, and enables the purchase of the article by a mere holding of the card over it and without an article selecting operation.  <P>SOLUTION: The vending machine comprises a main control part 30 for controlling article sale, a noncontact-IC-card-compliant reader/writer 24, an infrared communication part 22 adapted to a portable terminal, a Bluetooth(R) communication part 23, a CCD camera 21, a ticket printer 25, a speaker 27, a human-detection sensor 26, an LCD display 20 with a touch panel, and a second control part 10 for controlling the reader/writer, infrared communication light reception part, CCD camera, ticket printer, speaker, human-sensitive sensor and LCD display.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004226136-A (JP)
Title: Coriolis mass flowmeter
Inventor: OSAWA NORIKAZU
IPC: G01F1/84
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Coriolis mass flowmeter with enhanced stability, accuracy, and vibration resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: This Coriolis mass flowmeter is equipped with a branch part where a measured fluid is branched, a joining part where the measured fluid joins, a first vibration tube having a curvilinear shape provided with three inflection points point-symmetrically centering around a first midpoint between a first upstream-side fixed end part to one flow path of the branch part and a first downstream-side fixed end part to the one flow path of the joining part, a second vibration tube, with one end thereof being connected to the other flow path of the branch part, the other end thereof being connected to the other flow path of the joining part, having a curvilinear shape similar to the first vibration tube, being included in the same plane as a plane including the first vibration tube, and being mutually symmetrical to the first vibration tube about a center axis connecting the branch part and the joining part, exciters for exciting the first and second vibration tubes, and vibration detection sensors for detecting vibrations of the first and second vibration tubes.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004226218-A (JP)
Title: Data structure of natural feature guiding information, recording medium with the same recorded thereon, navigation apparatus, and system, method, program therefor, and recording medium with the program recorded thereon
Inventor: MIYAHARA HIROSHI
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a navigation system by which an amount of information for providing a guidance on a natural feature is reduced.  <P>SOLUTION: A natural feature guiding information for providing the guidance on the natural feature has a data structure where intrinsic information specifying a natural feature position and a guidance position respectively is associated with mesh intrinsic information relating to a sub-area composed of areas each of which includes at most one of the natural feature position and the guidance position in order to specify the positions. When it is recognized that a vehicle reaches a position indicated by the mesh intrinsic information of the guidance position with respect to a current position of the vehicle, a guidance on the natural feature corresponding to the guidance position is provided. Thus, the amount of information, loads for sending, receiving and processing data can be largely reduced in comparison with such a method that coordinates are used for representing the natural feature position and the guidance position of the feature guiding information, and a good navigation system can be provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004227967-A (JP)
Title: Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and its manufacturing method
Inventor: SAISHO KEIJI
IPC: H01M10/0565
Filed: 2003-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve battery characteristics such as storing property and charge/discharge cycle characteristics, in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a polymer electrolyte obtained by heating a non-aqueous electrolyte containing a radical polymeric monomer and polymerizing the monomer.  <P>SOLUTION: A vinyl ethylene carbonate is contained in the non-aqueous electrolyte to perform polymerization of the radical polymeric monomer at a temperature at which 70% or more of the volume of the vinyl ethylene carbonate remains unpolymerized, for example, at 50°C or lower.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004235717-A (JP)
Title: Network scanner apparatus and method for transmitting image data therefor
Inventor: MARUYAMA TOMOKO
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network scanner apparatus for transmitting image data via a network whereby a person making image data transmission operations can easily utilize a reply mail in response to the data and an error mail.  <P>SOLUTION: The network scanner apparatus is provided with: a read section for scanning an original to obtain image data (S3); a first setting means (S5) for setting a recipient address to which the image data are transmitted; a second setting means (S8, S10) for setting a sender address to represent a sender in place of a sender address for particularizing the network scanner apparatus; and a transmission control means (S4) for attaching the set sender address to the image data and controlling the transmission of the resulting image data to the set recipient address.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004232921-A (JP)
Title: Triple effect type absorption chiller with waste heat regenerator
Inventor: HIROMASA KAZUSHI
IPC: F25B15/00
Filed: 2003-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce an adverse effect of a triple effect type absorption chiller on external heat source equipment such as a gas engine by installing an waste heat regenerator.  <P>SOLUTION: In this chiller, the waste heat regenerator 168 for increasing the concentration of absorbent by collecting waste heat from the outside and utilizing as a heat source to heat the absorbent so as to heating and evaporating the refrigerant absorbed in the adsorbent is installed at the front of a low temperature regenerator 84. The ratio of a heating heat amount for raising the concentration of the absorbent by heating the absorbent by the low temperature regenerator 84 is reduced by increasing or decreasing the waste heat amount collected from the outside to reduce the heat-exchanged amount of the low temperature regenerator 84. The absorbent generated by a high temperature regenerator 10 and an intermediate temperature regenerator 87 is formed so as not to affect a performance even if the the absorbent is heated/concentrated to reduce the produced amount of refrigerant vapor which becomes the heating source of the low temperature regenerator 84. Thus, the power consumption of the fuel used for heating in the high temperature regenerator 10 can be improved to save energy.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004235936-A (JP)
Title: Diode clip circuit
Inventor: KOBAYASHI SHINJI
IPC: H03H7/38
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a diode clip circuit which obtain an ideal clip waveform even in a frequency area where the junction capacitance of a diode is a problem.  <P>SOLUTION: In the diode clip circuit which is a circuit having a load impedance and an output impedance matched and has a diode which is connected in parallel to the load impedance so as to cut at least one of upper and lower limits of an input voltage, the parallel capacitance of the diode is secured by an inductance inserted in series between the load impendance and the diode and/or between the diode and the output impedance, and dullness of rise of an output waveform caused by the parallel capacitance of the diode is removed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004231465-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for manufacturing porous glass fine particle deposit
Inventor: SAKAI TATSURO
IPC: C03B37/018
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a porous glass fine particle deposit, wherein glass fine particles produced with a burner for synthesizing glass fine particles are efficiently attached and deposited onto the surface of a starting material.  <P>SOLUTION: In the method for manufacturing the porous glass fine particle deposit, the glass fine particles produced using the burner for synthesizing the glass fine particle are blown against the surface of the starting material rotating around a shaft to attach and deposit the glass fine particles onto the surface of the starting material. Here, the surface of the starting material is cooled by cooling the atmosphere inside a space at a specific position relative to the position of the burner to efficiently attach and deposit the glass fine particles onto the surface of the starting material by utilizing thermophoresis effect.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004239657-A (JP)
Title: Electrochemical device
Inventor: UMEDA TAKAHIRO
IPC: B01D53/32
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress heat dissipation from a lead wire connecting section in order to improve a temperature distribution, and to enhance durability and oxygen gas exhausting properties.  <P>SOLUTION: Lead wires with high thermal conductivity 4, 5 are made up at the center of electrode membranes 2b, 3b being formed on the surfaces of a solid electrolyte 1. Therefore, the heat dissipation is accelerated through the lead wires 4, 5, and a temperature value at the center of the electrode membranes 2b, 3b whose temperature is slightly higher than its periphery, is decreased, and the temperature of the whole solid electrolyte 1 is made even. Accordingly, the oxygen gas is effectively exhausted without damaging the solid electrolyte 1 due to its thermal distortion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004264895-A (JP)
Title: Information processor and processing method, and program
Inventor: TAKIMOTO YUJI
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to select a predetermined content such as a content to be reproduced or a content to be purchased further efficiently and rapidly.  <P>SOLUTION: When a power supply is instructed to be turned on, key information and additive information stored in a key/additive information storage part 122 are read. The read key information and the additive information are transmitted to an Internet server 53 and a home server 64 to request a retrieval of a content based on them. The information showing the retrieval result is acquired by a display data generation part 123, and a picture by the display data generated based on the retrieval result is displayed on a display 82. The user can selectively watch a predetermined content from a list displayed on the display 82. This invention is applicable to an information processor such as a personal computer capable of reproducing the content or various pieces of home electric equipment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004241246-A (JP)
Title: Terminal metal and connector
Inventor: OKAMURA NORITOMO
IPC: H01R4/18
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the direction of a terminal metal against an electric wire when the terminal metal is connected to the electric wire.  <P>SOLUTION: In an electric wire connection part 32 of the terminal metal 30, the electric wire 50 is housed from the back and the electric wire 50 is hooked on the lance form 35 of the electric wire connection part 32. Because the electric wire connection part 32 is cylindrical, it is not necessary to position the terminal metal 30 against the electric wire 50 in the peripheral direction when connecting with the electric wire 50. Therefore, a mechanism to set the terminal metal 30 at a prescribed posture is unnecessary, and simplification of a device is realized.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004241657-A (JP)
Title: Thermoelectric transducing device and thermoelectric transducing device-unit
Inventor: SUGIYAMA SUSUMU
IPC: H01L35/32
Filed: 2003-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermoelectric transducing device wherein it has integrated thermoelectric couples and it can be formed at a low cost in comparison with a thermoelectric transducing device formed by using a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and a thermoelectric device-unit using the device.  <P>SOLUTION: The thermoelectric converting device 12 has an insulating film 20 having a flexibility, and a thermoelectric-couple group 21 comprising a plurality of thermoelectric couples 22 subjected to film formations on the insulating film 20 and connected in series with each other. Further, in the thermoelectric transducing device 12, a multilayer structure 20b is constituted by winding the insulating film 20, and the plurality of thermoelectric couples 22 connected in series with each other are integrated. Also, the thermoelectric transducing device 12 is made large in comparison with a thermoelectric transducing device using semiconductors, since its size including heat radiating and absorbing plates is made equal to 1 mm. Therefore, the thermoelectric transducing device 12 can be manufactured without using such a large-scale apparatus as a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI