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Patent JP-2004237771-A (JP)
Title: Automatic transmission operating device for vehicle
Inventor: OGASAWARA TAKESHI
IPC: B60K20/08
Filed: 2003-02-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic transmission operating device for a vehicle capable of significantly improving space efficiency in an instrument panel and enlarging a space in a compartment.  <P>SOLUTION: In this automatic transmission operating device for a vehicle, an operating input device 1 having a select lever 5 switching a range position of an automatic transmission is arranged in an instrument panel 9. The device has a lower lever 16, whose one end side is fixed to the operating input device 1, and whose other end side is rotatably mounted to a first cable 3 for transmitting an operation force generated by the operating input device 1 to the automatic transmission. A connection part 17 with the first cable 3 of the lower lever 16 is arranged below the operating input device 1 and adjacent to the instrument panel 9.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004237209-A (JP)
Title: Control method for regeneration of water softener
Inventor: YONEDA TAKESHI
IPC: B01J49/00
Filed: 2003-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control method for the regeneration of a water softener which prevents a hardness leak of water to be treated and conserves a salt used in the regeneration of an ion exchange resin.  <P>SOLUTION: In the control method for the regeneration of a water softener 1 wherein a resin cylinder 2 is filled with an ion exchange resin, a regeneration period is regulated on the basis of a hardness of water to be treated and at least either one of the element of the instantaneous flow rate of water to be treated from the previous regeneration process during the passage through the resin cylinder 2, the element of the temperature of water to be treated, the element of the total number of cations in water to be treated and the element of the occupying ratio of Na<SP>+</SP>ions in all of cations in water to be treated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004241256-A (JP)
Title: Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
Inventor: SATO TOSHITADA
IPC: H01M4/58
Filed: 2003-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an alloy negative electrode material capable of storing and releasing lithium preventing deformation of the outer shape of a battery and drop in charge discharge cycle characteristics caused by expansion and contraction in charge discharge.  <P>SOLUTION: The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is equipped with a nonaqueous electrolyte; a separator; and a positive electrode and a negative electrode both capable of storing/releasing lithium. The negative electrode contains an alloy containing at least Ti and Si, a current collector of the negative electrode is made of a metal material containing Cu, and the negative electrode has a metallic bond comprising Ti-Cu or Ti-Si-Cu.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004237593-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing pc member
Inventor: SUZUKI YOSHITERU
IPC: E04G21/12
Filed: 2003-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem: wherein in a PC member manufactured by a pre-tension method, enough tension is not applied up to a position separated at some distance from an end part, and when a concentrated load is applied to the end part of the PC member, a crack can occur in this part.  <P>SOLUTION: When the PC member 10 by the pre-tension method is produced, a fixing device 18 is fitted to a PC steel member 12 in the vicinity of the end 15 position of a concrete member, and the support platen of the fixing device 18 is embedded in concrete 11. After the curing of the concrete 11, the PC steel member is cut outside the fixing device 18. In this way, no shortage 17 of tension 16 takes place on the side deeper than the fixing device 18 of the PC member 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004242130-A (JP)
Title: Signal generating device and method for measuring video/audio transmission time difference, and signal analysis device and method therefor
Inventor: MIZUHARA TATSUJI
IPC: H04B17/309
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a signal generating device and a method for measuring a video/audio transmission time difference, which generates measuring video signals and audio signals for measuring a transmission time difference occurring when video and audio signals are transmitted through a transmission line, and to provide a signal analysis device and a method.  <P>SOLUTION: The signal generating device 1 generates measuring video signals and audio signals for measuring a transmission time difference occurring when video and audio signals are transmitted through a transmission line. The signal generating device 1 is composed of a sequence control unit 2, a reference signal generating means 3, a video signal generating means 4, and an audio signal generating means 5. In the signal generating device 1, the video signal generating means 4 divides a television signal effective scanning zone into a predetermined number on the basis of the reference signals of a sampling clock generating unit, and generates the measuring video signals which are obtained by scanning the divided sub-zones with white or black signals to serve as a pattern image.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004236927-A (JP)
Title: Shot mat set for golf practice
Inventor: TAKAYAMA TAKEHIRO
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shot mat set suitable for down blow and having excellent running cost.  <P>SOLUTION: A thin shot mat is arranged on the left side and a thick shot mat is arranged on the right side, whereby a difference in level is produced in a joint between both mats so that in the case of down blow shot as shown in the figure, the head of a golf club hardly strikes the mat to reduce the risk of damaging the wrist or the like. Further, since an abrasion part of a mat artificial lawn is located at the end, not in the central part, the mat can be reversed from left to right to use both ends of the mat so that the running cost can be also reduced.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004246973-A (JP)
Title: Controller and optical disk unit
Inventor: MORISHITA HIDEO
IPC: G11B7/09
Filed: 2003-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an controller capable of easily correcting offset according to a detected temperature even when a temperature change occurs, and an optical disk unit.  <P>SOLUTION: With temperature sensors 106, 114 disposed in an HAIC 101 which is a semiconductor device, and in a servo signal generation IC 107, offset values corresponding to the temperature changes of the IC's 101, 107 are set on a table and held in a memory 119. An offset value necessary for offset correction is obtained from the table held in the memory 119 according to the result of temperature detection to carry out offset correction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004253173-A (JP)
Title: Light emitting device
Inventor: HASHIMOTO YUKICHIKA
IPC: F21V8/00
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light emitting device capable of preventing the generation of bright and dark parts on an irradiation surface for irradiating an irradiation object with light source light.  <P>SOLUTION: This light emitting device includes a light guide plate 2 and a lens sheet 6 having a prism surface 6a disposed oppositely to a luminescent surface 2c of the guide plate 2 and the irradiation surface 6b facing to the prism surface 6a for irradiating the irradiation object with light. A plurality of lens grooves 4 arranged nearly radially to a lamp 1 are formed on a non-luminescent surface 2b of the guide plate 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004254379-A (JP)
Title: Charger protective structure of distribution board
Inventor: OTSUKA HIROFUMI
IPC: H02B1/40
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a short-circuiting accident from occurring by preventing a foreign matter, such as, dust, etc. dropped from above a distribution board from being invaded into a charger.  <P>SOLUTION: The charger protective structure of the distribution board includes a charger cover 3 mounted above the charger so that the charger is protected. A through hole 3a is formed in the charger cover 3. A rubber bushing having a slit is mounted in the through hole 3a. The charger prevents the dust, etc., from being invaded while an electric wire can be secondarily fed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004252162-A (JP)
Title: Image forming method and image forming apparatus
Inventor: SUZUKI HIROHARU
IPC: G03G9/08
Filed: 2003-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming method which prevents image degradation by a static transfer system and produces high-quality images, in an image forming apparatus which performs simultaneous image transfer to both sides of a recording medium and which has also an excellent energy saving effect.  <P>SOLUTION: The image forming method includes: a first transfer step in which a first visible image supported by a first image carrier 10 is transferred to a second image carrier 100 kept in contact with the first image carrier 10 by applying heat and pressure; a second transfer step in which the first image carrier 10 supports a second visible image and this second visible image supported by the first image carrier 10 and the first visible image supported by the second image carrier 100 are simultaneously transferred to both sides of a recording medium P by applying heat and pressure; and a fixing step in which the first and second visible images on the recording medium P are melted and stuck on the medium P.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004258085-A (JP)
Title: Autofocus system
Inventor: SASAKI TADASHI
IPC: G02B7/28
Filed: 2003-02-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autofocus system capable of appropriately selecting a high accuracy mode in which the accuracy of a focus is high and a high speed mode in which the stability of the operation of the focus is high and the operation of the focus is performed at high speed in accordance with circumstances as an autofocus processing mode in which focusing is performed on the basis of the signal of a high frequency component from a video signal.  <P>SOLUTION: In the AF of an optical path length difference system, the filters of a processing part to generate a focus evaluated value for the respective video signals obtained from two imaging devices for detecting a focusing state 32A and 32B are set to be switched between HPFs 82A and 82B, and BPFs 83A and 83B. The HPFs 82A and 82B are used when the high accuracy mode is set, and the BPFs 83A and 83B are used when the high speed mode is set. Then, in the high speed mode, the focus is moved at high speed so as to make the operation of the focus follow up focusing action on a moving body.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004254616-A (JP)
Title: Device for controlling health of animal
Inventor: KASAHARA YASUHIRO
IPC: A61B5/296
Filed: 2003-02-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for controlling the health of animals, capable of readily measuring weight values and impedance values of animals in various kinds and sizes, and controlling the health of the animals by calculating health-evaluating data for evaluating the health state of the animals such as body fat percentage and body water percentage.  <P>SOLUTION: The device for controlling the health of animals has a body weight value-inputting means for inputting the body weight value of the animal, an impedance-measuring means, an intercrural distance-inputting means for inputting the distance between the fore and back legs, a health-evaluating data-calculating means, an impedance-measuring means measures the impedance value between the fore and back legs by bringing impedance-measuring electrodes into contact with the joints of limbs, a health-evaluating data-calculating means calculates the health-evaluating data from the body weight value input by the body weight-inputting means, the impedance value between the fore and back legs, measured by the impedance-measuring means and the distance between the fore and back legs input by the intercrural distance-inputting means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004260955-A (JP)
Title: Battery driving arrangement and power supply method
Inventor: HASHIMOTO YASUYUKI
IPC: H01M10/44
Filed: 2003-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery drive arrangement as well as a power supply method capable of suppressing consumption of a battery by effectively using the battery which is a power source, in a power management of the battery drive arrangement.  <P>SOLUTION: A portable mini disc reproduction apparatus uses a mini disc 20 and a memory 5. The power is supplied from a step-up converter 3 to the digital part of a DSP6 when data are read from the mini disc 20, a pickup 9 or a DSP (digital signal processor) 6 is in full operation, or the voltage of a battery 1 is low. If the pickup 9 or DSP6 is not in full operation, such as at reading of memory contents, or the voltage of the battery 1 is high, a pass switch 4 switches it to a power supply state where the battery 1 is directly connected to the digital part of the DSP6. In the state of power supply where the battery 1 is directly connected to the digital part of the DSP6, the step-up operation of the step-up converter 3 is stopped.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004257707-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for controlling proper capacity of heat source apparatus
Inventor: TSUCHIYA SHIGERU
IPC: F24F11/02
Filed: 2003-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for controlling the proper capacity of a heat source apparatus, controlling the discharge amount of a heat medium by a primary pump with an inverter, not generating the loss in heat exchange in the heat source apparatus even in summer or between periods, and performing the control of high operating efficiency.  <P>SOLUTION: In this proper capacity control method of the heat source apparatus in an air conditioning system 20 wherein the heat medium is circulated between the heat source apparatus (thermal storage tank 32 and freezers 34, 36) and the air conditioning load 22, and the heat exchange is performed by the air conditioning load, when the temperature difference between a temperature of the heat medium output from the heat source apparatus and that of the heat medium output from the air conditioning load is within a predetermined range, a flow rate of the heat medium flowing in a communication pipe 50 communicating a going header 38 for collecting the heat medium output from the heat source apparatus and a returning header for collecting the heat medium output from the air conditioning load 22 is controlled to be zero, to make the amount of the heat medium output from the heat source apparatus and that output from the air conditioning load 22 be equal to each other. Whereby the air conditioning system of high operating efficiency can be realized.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004256901-A (JP)
Title: Etching liquid for copper or copper alloy, and method for producing electronic substrate using the same
Inventor: TODA KENJI
IPC: H05K3/06
Filed: 2003-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an etching liquid for copper or a copper alloy capable of producing an electronic substrate in which side etches are reduced, the narrowing of the upper part of copper wiring is suppressed, and short circuits are not generated, and to provide a method for producing an electronic substrate using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: In the method for producing an electronic substrate, a copper layer (2a) formed on an electrically insulated base material (1) is etched so as to be a prescribed shape to form copper wiring (2c). After the main etching, copper (A) to be removed remaining in the cuff part of copper wiring (2b) is removed with an aqueous solution comprising (a) an oxidizer for copper by 1 to 50 g/L, (b) at least one kind of acid selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric acid and organic acid by 1 to 200 g/L, and (c) at least one kind of polymer selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene glycol and a copolymer of polyamine and polyalkylene glycol by 0.01 to 50 g/L.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004227547-A (JP)
Title: Method for providing giveaway win/loss result and system for providing win/loss result
Inventor: TANAKA TETSUO
IPC: G06Q50/34
Filed: 2003-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for providing a win/loss result and a system for providing the win/loss result by which the giveaway win/loss result is simply instantly provided to a user obtaining commodities.  <P>SOLUTION: The method and the system for providing the giveaway win/loss result comprise: photographing a two-dimensional code provided to the commodities by means of the photographing section of a cellular telephone 23 in accordance with instructions by the user obtaining the commodities (S102); reading win/loss determination information from the picture data in the two-dimensional code (S104); and transmitting the win/loss determination information through a telecommunications network to a win/loss determination server 22 (S106). In this way, the win/loss determination server 22 determines the win/loss of the giveaway based on the win/loss determination information received from the cellular telephone 23 (S108, S110) and transmits the win/loss result information indicative of the determination result to the cellular telephone 23 of the user (S112, S114).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004263506-A (JP)
Title: Keyway guide device and lock device with keyway guide device
Inventor: KYO YASU
IPC: E05B17/00
Filed: 2003-03-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a keyway guide device and a lock device with the keyway guide device, enabling the disabled persons in fingertips to easily pass a key through the keyway.  <P>SOLUTION: This keyway guide device includes a cup part 2 and an introducing part 3. The cup part 2 includes: an opening 4, a guide hole 5 connected to the introducing part 3 and having such a size to insert a key 40, and a taper surface 6 guiding the tip of the key 40 from the opening 4 side to the guide hole 5 and having the cross section gradually reduced in diamter toward the guide hole 5. The introducing part 3 has an introducing passage 7 connected to the guide hole 5 in the cup part 2 to guide the key 40 inserted in the guide hole 5 and a lock connecting part 8 formed on the opposite side to the guide hole 5 to fit the introducing part 3 to the lock 32 where the keyway 35 is formed with the introducing passage 7 aligned with the position of the keyway 35.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004262400-A (JP)
Title: Combination switch module
Inventor: SUZUKI NORIHITO
IPC: B60R16/02
Filed: 2003-03-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combination switch module capable of miniaturizing or omitting a circuit substrate of a steering angle sensor, and performing overall size reduction and cost reduction thereof by reducing the number of redundant electronic components.  <P>SOLUTION: In a steering angle sensor 17 of the combination switch module 10, a steering angle CPU unit to operate the angle from the output of a sensing circuit unit, a steering multiplex communication unit to perform multiplex communication of steering information with an external system, and a steering angle data storage unit to store data when the power is not supplied are provided in a multiplex communication control unit, a multiplex communication unit and a data storage unit on an ECU substrate 15, respectively.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004271423-A (JP)
Title: Displacement sensor using semiconductor magnetoresistive element
Inventor: OSHIUMI KOICHIRO
IPC: G01D5/245
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely measure displacement of a gear 2 itself or a magnetic body comprising a gear-like irregularity.  <P>SOLUTION: Each pair of elements among a plurality of pairs of impedance elements to which an AC voltage is applied is arrayed with an interval along the row of teeth of a magnetic body comprising such row of teeth as gear pitch. The impedance of each element changes according to the positional relationship with the row of teeth. Semiconductor magnetoresistive elements MR1-MR4 close to a magnetic pole of a field magnet 1 are used as the impedance element. The array interval of each pair of semiconductor magnetoresistive elements (MR1-MR3, MR2-MR4) connected electrically in series corresponds to a half of a gear pitch. A pair of array of the semiconductor magnetoresistive element and an adjoining pair of array are in the relationship of mutual interpolation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004273355-A (JP)
Title: Plasma display panel and manufacturing method of the same
Inventor: TOMII KAORU
IPC: H01J11/32
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prolong the life of a plasma display panel.  <P>SOLUTION: The plasma display panel is composed of two glass base plates 10, 20 jointed in parallel with each other. A sustaining electrode 21, a dielectric layer 22, and a protection layer are formed respectively on the glass base plate at one side 20. An address electrode structure in which a plurality of address electrode parts 11a and dielectric layer parts 11b, and a plurality of rib parts 11c are integrally formed of a prescribed metal as a base body and an insulating body formed by oxidizing the metal, are arranged on the surface of the other glass base plate 10 facing the sustaining electrode 21, and fluorescent layers 15, 16, 17 are applied on the groove of the address electrode structure 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004267979-A (JP)
Title: Photocatalyst filter apparatus
Inventor: KOBAYASHI NORIO
IPC: B01J35/06
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high performance photocatalyst filter apparatus in which high photocatalytic action is exhibited by irradiating an photocatalyst layer formed on the surface of a filter base material with light for activating the photocatalyst layer.  <P>SOLUTION: The photocatalyst filter apparatus 1 is provided with a housing part 6 for housing a glass fiber flux 5 on which the photocatalyst layer is formed, a light transmissive window member 7a arranged to be opposed to the end part 50a of the glass fiber flux 5, a vessel 2 provided with a flow-in port 8 and a flow-out port 9 of a fluid 11 to be treated, a light source 3 for emitting light to propagate to the inside of the glass fiber flux 5 to irradiate and activate the photocatalyst layer, and a cylindrical member 4. The cylindrical member 4 includes the top end part 30a of the light source 3 to align the the center axis of the glass fiber flux 5 with the optical axis of the light source 3 and to reflect a part of the light from the light source 3 on the inside surface 42 to make the light incident to the end part 50a of the glass fiber flux 5 through the window member 7q.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004237033-A (JP)
Title: Rinsing toothbrush for care and brush for infant
Inventor: KARIYA RYOJI
IPC: A46B13/08
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tooth brush which enables a care giver to easily perform troublesome work of pouring water into a cup and rinsing the mouth of a bedridden aged with weak mouth rinsing power after tooth brushing, the troublesome work harder than tooth brushing.  <P>SOLUTION: This toothbrush for care is equipped with a hole 2 for spouting water in a brush part of the tooth brush, a long hollow shell 3 to pass water in the shell part. A manual pump 5, a water vessel 6, and the toothbrush 1 are firmly integrated and fixed by a one-action attaching part 4. Water pressure is generated by actuating the manual pump 5 while moving the toothbrush 1 in the mouth and water is caused to flow out through the hole 2 for spouting water to simply and easily rinse and wash the mouth.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI