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Patent JP-2003263917-A (JP)
Title: Luminaire
Inventor: ISODA MASAAKI
IPC: H01R33/08
Filed: 2002-03-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent erroneous use of incorrect combination of a straight tube lamp and a socket with an entire length of a luminaire body not changed according to a rated lamp power.  <P>SOLUTION: There are provided a straight tube lamp 1 comprising bases 2 on both ends, a pair of sockets 10 and 10' comprising a receiving metal 13 which engages with the base 2 in an axial direction of the straight tube lamp 1, and a luminaire body 20 which holds both sockets 10 and 10'. The base 2 of the straight tube lamp 1 is provided with a pair of protruding parts 5, and a receiving metal 13 is provided with a pair of recessed parts 13c which engage with the protruding parts 5. So, only a correct base 2 of the straight tube lamp 1 engages with a correct receiving metal 13 of the sockets 10 and 10'. Thus, erroneous use of incorrect combination of a straight tube lamp and a socket is prevented, with no change of the entire length of the luminaire body 20 according to rated lamp power.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003260071-A (JP)
Title: Electric toothbrush
Inventor: TAKAHATA DAISUKE
IPC: A61C17/22
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric toothbrush with which the backside of the teeth or the inner teeth can be brushed easily in a natural posture.  <P>SOLUTION: The electric toothbrush comprises a main body case 1, a brush arm 2 extending from the upper end of the main body case, and a brush body 3 attached detachably on the front side of the upper end of the brush arm 2. An ultrasonic motor 10 for driving the brush body 3 is housed within the upper end of the brush arm 2. The brush arm 2 is curved and folded in a nonlinear form.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003267036-A (JP)
Title: Vehicular air conditioner
Inventor: NAKAMURA YASUNOBU
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 2002-03-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular air conditioner capable of increasing a heating capacity by disposing a ventilation passage whereby a quantity of air blown out from a foot blowoff port gets to the maximum when the maximum heating condition is set.  <P>SOLUTION: Hot air bypass passage 43a, 43b bypassing foot doors 36a, 36b from a heater core 23 and leading to foot openings 38a, 38b for front seats and foot openings 39a, 39b for rear seats are provided in an air-conditioning unit 20 having right and left temperature controls independently of each other, and the hot air bypass passages 43a, 43b are structured so that when the maximum heating condition wherein both air mixing doors 26a, 26b are moved to the positions for providing the maximum amount of heating is set, the hot air passing through the heater core 23 is led to the foot opening parts 38a, 38b for the front seat and the foot openings parts 39a, 39b for the rear seat through the warm air bypass passages 43a, 43b. Thereby, the heating capacity can be increased.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003234164-A (JP)
Title: Output controlling method of heating system by alternate-current electric power, and heating system using this controlling method
Inventor: KAWAGUCHIYA NAKA
IPC: H05B3/00
Filed: 2002-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an output-controlling method of a heating system by AC power that aims at improvement of usage efficiency of electric power by distributing the peak power evenly, and the heating system using this output-controlling method.  <P>SOLUTION: AC power, which heats two or more heaters, is distributed for every time-duration divided equally, and dispersed to a cycle pattern corresponding to the output rate, and averaged by dispersing so that the peak power of each group's cycle pattern may not overlap each other at a time. Moreover, the output control using communication is enabled to perform.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003274579-A (JP)
Title: Stator for hermetically sealed compressor motor
Inventor: FUNAMI JUN
IPC: H02K1/18
Filed: 2002-03-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress vibration of a brushless motor stator, of a hermetically sealed compressor motor to realize noise reduction.  <P>SOLUTION: End plate are placed on both end faces of the stator and tightened and fastened in the direction of lamination thickness. Thus, the rigidity of a laminate is enhanced with respect to deformation and torsion in the direction of lamination.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003266364-A (JP)
Title: Robot device
Inventor: FUKUCHI MASAKI
IPC: G03B17/56
Filed: 2002-03-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out interaction with a human smoothly.  <P>SOLUTION: A recessed part is formed with a light transmission member 232 as an inner wall at a position of the eye of a robot device 1. A lens 233 and a CCD camera 203 are provided on a bottom face of the recessed part, and the CCD camera 203 converts an image formed on the lens 233 into an electrical signal. The recessed part is for restricting a range where the lens 233 can be seen from outside, and a depth of the recessed part is made so that the range where the lens 233 can be seen from outside coincides with a field of vision of the lens 233.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003266599-A (JP)
Title: Surface conductive cloth having bending resistance
Inventor: OGURA SUSUMU
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 2002-03-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface conducive cloth having bending resistance having both of excellent bending resistance and good surface conductivity.  <P>SOLUTION: The surface conductive cloth having bending resistance is obtained by providing a metal film layer on at least one surface of the cloth and laminating a resin layer containing 0.5 wt.% or more of a conductive filler with a particle size of 0.01-20 μm on the metal film layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003278555-A (JP)
Title: Variable turbosupercharger
Inventor: NISHIYAMA TOSHIHIKO
IPC: F02B37/24
Filed: 2002-03-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variable turbosupercharger having a simple structure and facilitating minute adjustment of an opening of a nozzle vane.  <P>SOLUTION: A vane 31 is fitted into a rotary drive shaft 22 on which the nozzle vane not shown in the drawing is fixed to a tip part to lock it by a key 32. The vane 31 is stored in a fan-shaped case 33 so as to turn freely centered on the rotary drive shaft 22, and the inside of the case 33 is separated into a pressure chamber 34 and a drain chamber 35. The pressure chamber 34 is provided with an introduction port 36 for introducing pressure oil, and the drain chamber 35 is provided with a drain port 37. A spring 40 is interposed between the vane 31 and a wall face 35a of the case 33 in the drain chamber 35 to energize the vane 31 toward a pressure chamber 34 side. When an amount of exhaust gas is small, pressure oil is supplied into the pressure chamber 34, the vane 31 is turned onto a drain chamber 35 side, and the nozzle vane is closed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003266967-A (JP)
Title: Photosensitive layer, printing plate material with photosensitive layer, method for manufacturing it, and printer
Inventor: SUDA YASUHARU
IPC: G03F7/004
Filed: 2002-03-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a printing plate material with high photocatalytic activity, high mechanical strength and high plate wear in relation to a photosensitive layer, a recyclable printing plate material with the photosensitive layer, a method for manufacturing it, and a printer.  <P>SOLUTION: The photosensitive layer 3 provided on the printing plate material 5 has a binder 32 at least comprising a photocatalyst fine particle 31 and a water-glass and is constituted in such a way that the surface exhibits a hydrophilic nature by irradiating it with an active light with a higher energy than the band gap energy of the photocatalyst.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003281668-A (JP)
Title: Charging communication terminal, external server, communication system and charging method
Inventor: OKAMOTO HIDEKI
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-03-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charging communication system capable of precisely determining and charging the rate to equipment or energy use in home at a cost as low as possible by using a global network (Internet).  <P>SOLUTION: A communication terminal device 1 connected to an external server 4 through the global network accesses the external server 4, on receipt of the input of a use quantity signal every set use quantity of the equipment or energy to be charged, and transmits equipment energy use information including its own identification information. The external server 4 calculates the use quantity of equipment or energy every communication terminal device 1 on the basis of the received equipment energy use information, and calculates the rate to be charged to a customer on the basis of the information of the use quantity of equipment or energy and customer information in which the communication terminal device 1 is associated with a rate unit price every customer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003288044-A (JP)
Title: Display device
Inventor: SHIRAKAWA YUKIHIKO
IPC: H05B44/00
Filed: 2002-03-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device in which the number of column drivers is reduced.  <P>SOLUTION: The display device is provided with a plurality of data electrodes 21 which are extended along a column direction, a plurality of scanning electrodes 22 which are extended along a row direction and pixels 30 which are the crossing points of the electrodes 21 and 22. A display section 13a has first and second regions having different positions along the row direction. The data electrodes 21 provided in the first region and the corresponding data electrodes 21 provided in the second region are short-circuited and driven by a common column driver 23. Moreover, the plurality of the scanning electrodes 22 provided in the first region and the plurality of the scanning electrodes 22 provided in the second region are respectively driven by different row drivers 24. As it can be seen above, one column driver drives the plurality of the data electrodes 21 and therefore, the number of the column drivers is reduced.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003298033-A (JP)
Title: Imaging element
Inventor: SENBA TAKEHIKO
IPC: H04N5/335
Filed: 2002-03-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To alleviate influence of adhesion of foreign matters to an imaged image, and to realize reduction in the size of an imaging element.  <P>SOLUTION: An elastic member 6 is provided between a protective member 4 and an imaging chip 3. The member 4 is energized by the member 6 in a direction (direction X) of separating the member 4 from the chip 3. When the element 2 is used for the member 6, the member 6 is energized in the direction X, and an interval is provided between the chip 3 and the member 4 (A). When the element 2 is not used, the member 6 is contracted against energization (B). Then, the chip 3 and the member 4 is held at a distance L1, in which the chip 3 will not mutually interfere with the member 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003292011-A (JP)
Title: Plug of container
Inventor: KONDO HIROSHI
IPC: B65D51/20
Filed: 2002-03-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plug of a container which can be opened easily and sanitarily by light force and further can be downsized.  <P>SOLUTION: The plug of the container comprises the main body 1 of the plug made of a synthetic resin having a tube part 3, the inside of which is closed by a closing wall 2 and a cap 8 which can be fitted on the rim of the main body 1 of the plug and the plug is opened by removing the closing wall 2 encircled with an annular thin wall line 5 by tearing off the annular thin wall line 5 provided on the closing wall 2 to close the tube part 3, wherein a part to be hooked 6 is mounted on the closing wall 2 encircled with the annular thin wall line 5 and a hook part 10, which is hooked in the part to be hooked 6 to pull and tear off the annular thin wall line 5, is mounted on the outer surface on the cap 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003297918-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: NOGUCHI JUNJI
IPC: H01L21/768
Filed: 2002-03-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a resistance to dielectric breakdown and reduces capacitance between copper wires in a semiconductor device.  <P>SOLUTION: The wirings 25, comprising copper as the principal constituent of the same, are formed on insulation films 20 (17) on a base plate. Then, another insulation film 26, having a function to restrain or prevent the diffusion of copper, is formed on the upper surface as well as the side surfaces of the wirings 25 and the insulation films 20 (17). In this case, the insulation film 26 is formed between the neighbored wirings of the wirings 25 so that the piling speed on the opposed side surfaces of the wirings becomes higher than that in the lower part of the same. Then, another insulation film 28, consisting of a material having a low dielectric constant, is formed on the insulation film 26. In this case, spaces between the neighbored wirings in the wirings 25 are not filled by the material of the insulation film 28 whereby voids 27, surrounded by the insulation film 26 and the insulation film 28, are formed between the neighbored wirings.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003022480-A (JP)
Title: System and method for managing expired product
Inventor: GOODWIN JOHN C III
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2002-03-29
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system of managing expired products, which uses an electronic price label system to convey expiration information. SOLUTION: The system includes a product label affixed to the time-sensitive product, an electronic price label system including an electronic price label and a product label interrogator controlled by the electronic price label which obtains the expiration information from the product label, and a computer which identifies the electronic price label as being associated with the product, causes the electronic price label to activate the product label interrogator to interrogate the product label, and receives the expiration information from the electronic price label. The computer may additionally compare the expiration information to current date information and cause the electronic price label to display a message including that the product has expired if the current date information is after expiration information.
Patent JP-2003296368-A (JP)
Title: Device and method for retrieving database, and storage medium and program
Inventor: KUBOYAMA HIDEO
IPC: G06F12/00
Filed: 2002-03-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase retrieval speed when pieces of data corresponding to inputted character strings are retrieved from a database having tri-structure.  <P>SOLUTION: This database retrieval device 102 for retrieving pieces of the data corresponding to the inputted character strings from the data base 101 having the tri-structure, is provided with a plurality of slave node searching parts (104, 105) for searching slave nodes according to the inputted character strings in the respective nodes with the tri-structure, a setting means for presetting slave node searching parts to be used in the respective nodes by every node among a plurality of the slave node searching parts (104, 105) and retrieves the data held in the database by searching for the slave nodes by using the slave node searching parts set by every nodes in the setting means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2002322133-A (JP)
Title: Improved method for producing 2-ethylhexyl acrylate
Inventor: BESSALEM JACQUELINE
IPC: C07C69/003
Filed: 2002-04-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a method for producing 2-ethylhexyl acrylate. SOLUTION: A crude reaction mixture B1 is washed with water in an extraction distillation column C2. An organic phase O2 is recovered at the top of column and a water phase A1 is recovered at the bottom thereof, and the organic phase O2 is sent to a column C3. An AA and 2-EtHexOH in the organic phase are recovered at the top of the column C3 and recirculated into an esterification reaction. The purified 2-ethylhexyl acrylate is sent to a second distillation column C4 and the substance except a residual heavy substance is recovered at the top of the column 4 and the water phase A1 is fed to a step for hydrolysis of 2-ethylhexyl hydrogensulfate salt. The 2-ethylhexyl hydrogensulfate (2-EtHexSO4 ) in the water phase A1 is hydrolyzed to form a 2-EtHexOH and a sulfuric acid, which is neutralized by introduction of a base, and then the acid obtained through hydrolysis is neutralized.  The obtained water phase A3 is fed to a step for recovering 2-EtHexOH in a distillation column C1, and the alcohol is taken out from the top of the column C1.
Patent JP-2003298814-A (JP)
Title: Image reader and image forming device
Inventor: SUGIMOTO HIROYUKI
IPC: G02F1/31
Filed: 2002-04-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reader which performs fast response, has high light-utilization-factor, adjusts a shift amount in accordance with electric field intensity, has no change in optical path length in shifting an image formation position and reads a highly detailed image at high speeds.  <P>SOLUTION: A solid-state image pickup device 11 receives image light of an original 2 to read an image of the original 2. An optical path deflecting element 12 shifts the image formation position of the image light for the solid- state image pickup device 11 in a main scanning direction. The optical path deflecting element 12 is provided with a liquid crystal cell formed by filling a liquid crystal layer made of chiral smectic C phases forming homeotropic alignment between a pair of transparent substrates, and a pair of electrodes for applying an electric field in the plane direction of the substrates to the liquid crystal layer. A control circuit 15 performs control that multiplies the resolution of the solid-state image pickup device 11 by receiving the light of pixels at a plurality of positions of the original 2 with time division by common pixels of the solid-state image pickup device 11 by shifting an optical path by the optical path deflecting element 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003294359-A (JP)
Title: Open showcase
Inventor: TAKAYAMA TSUTOMU
IPC: F25D17/08
Filed: 2002-04-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an open showcase extremely easy in installing work of a temperature sensor, wherein a cold air temperature is accurately measured regardless of an increase-decrease in exhibiting commodities.  <P>SOLUTION: In this open showcase, a ventilation flue is formed between an inner box 2c and an outer box 4c having an upper opening part, a cooler and an air blower are arranged in this ventilation flue, and the inside of a storage is cooled by cold air blown off toward a cold air suction port from a cold air blowoff port 8 of this ventilation flue by covering the upper opening part with an air curtain. The temperature sensor 15 is faced in an air straightening passage on an air straightening plate 8b extending to the cold air blowoff port 8 side from the upper edge of a back wall 2c' of the inner box 2c, and a sensor installing member 16 for holding this temperature sensor 15 is installed on the storage inside back wall 2c'.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003290422-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: HORIE KOTARO
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2002-04-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which eliminates unfairness due to the least chance to grasp ongoing situations in games by allowing players to grasp the situations easily.  <P>SOLUTION: The number of games after the end of the bonus service is counted and when it reaches a predetermined value, the further internal winning of the bonus is determined to mark the succession of games and the type of sounds emitted and displayed images are differentiated depending on the frequency of successive winning to allow the players to grasp the ongoing situations easily.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003292537-A (JP)
Title: Vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer
Inventor: NAKADA YOSHITOMO
IPC: C08F4/32
Filed: 2002-04-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer having an excellent color tone and heat resistance to yellowing.  <P>SOLUTION: The vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer is obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer component containing N-vinylpyrrolidone by using an azo-based initiator having a chemical structure represented by the formula: -C(CH<SB>3</SB>)<SB>2</SB>-N=N-C(CH<SB>3</SB>)<SB>2</SB>- and/or an organic peroxide-based initiator which is soluble in an amount of ≥3 wt.% in water or ethyl alcohol at 25°C. The polymer has ≤30 Hazen number of 5% aqueous solution and ≤60 K value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003292236-A (JP)
Title: Sheet postprocessing device
Inventor: TOYOIZUMI TERUHIKO
IPC: B65H37/06
Filed: 2002-04-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable filing by four through holes of a middle folded sheet, by middle folding after opening the four holes near both end surfaces in a longitudinal direction of the sheet.  <P>SOLUTION: At specified positions of the sheet S carried by a sheet carrying means, holes for sheet filing are opened by a boring means, and then, a carrying direction center portion of the sheet is folded by a folding means. The sheet postprocessing device comprises sheet tip/rear end detecting sensors PS2, PS4 detecting a tip end portion and a rear end portion of the sheet S, and a controlling means stopping the sheet S at a specified position by controlling the sheet carrying means on the basis of a detection signal by the sheet tip/rear end detecting sensors PS2, PS4. Near the tip end portion and the rear end portion in the sheet carrying direction of the sheet S at the specified position, a plurality of lines of holes h1, h2 for sheet filing are opened by boring means 20, 60.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003302097-A (JP)
Title: Modified hot-water supply device
Inventor: HATAHIRA SEIICHI
IPC: C02F1/66
Filed: 2002-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for supplying hot water to which modification processing is given only by adding to an existing hot-water supplier and for enabling use of an additional heating function provided in the hot-water supplier.  <P>SOLUTION: This modified hot-water supply device S is arranged between a hot-water supply device Q for a bathtub and a bathtub Y and connected by connecting ducts J1 through J4. For a hot-water supply operation, a solenoid valve V1 of the hot-water supply device Q is opened to introduce water from a water source into a hot-water duct A, a pressure detector 13 detects increase in water pressure and opens an opening/closing valve V2, and hot water from the hot-water supply device Q is fed to the bathtub Y through a modified duct F. For an additional heating operation, a pump P1 of the hot-water supply device Q is started, and hot water is circulated between a heat exchanger 1 of the hot-water supply device Q and a heat exchanger 10 of the modified hot-water supply device S. Then, a temperature detector t2 of the modified hot-water supply device S detects rise in water temperature and starts a pump P2, by which hot water is made to circulate and flow between the heat exchanger 10 and the bathtub Y, and hot water in the bathtub Y is heated by the heat exchanger 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003303354-A (JP)
Title: Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program
Inventor: ISHII SHINYA
IPC: G06T13/40
Filed: 2002-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dynamically display a 3D object in a state maintaining an arbitrary shape.  <P>SOLUTION: If a 3D object 21 before bone fitting processing and a cross bone (bone 23-2) are arranged as shown in Fig. 23A, the 3D object 21 is translated down to the right in the drawing before the cross bone is extended, as shown in Fig. 23B. This is applicable, for example, to such game computer graphic software as displays and moves an arbitrary 3D object on a display.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO