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Patent JP-2007133901-A (JP)
Title: Mechanism to safely perform system firmware update in logically partitioned (lpar) machine
Inventor: LEE VAN HOA
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 2007-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for managing system firmware in a data processing system having a plurality of logical partitions.  <P>SOLUTION: Responding to a request to update the system firmware from a first logical partition within the plurality of logical partitions in the data processing system, a determination is made whether the first logical partition within the plurality of logical partitions is present in the data processing system. Responding to the determination that the first logical partition within the plurality of logical partitions is present in the data processing system, the system firmware is updated from the first logical partition in the data processing system. Then, starting of additional partitions within the plurality of logical partitions in the data processing system is inhibited, until the firmware update from the first logical partition is complete.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008168509-A (JP)
Title: Liquid droplet ejection head, ejection control method for liquid droplet ejector, and liquid droplet ejector
Inventor: SANO AKIRA
IPC: B41J2/045
Filed: 2007-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an ejection control method for a liquid droplet ejection head and the like, which can make the amount of ejection of a liquid droplet and the like variable by a simple method.  <P>SOLUTION: The liquid droplet ejection head comprises a nozzle 31, a channel which communicates with the nozzle 31, an individual electrode 12, and a diaphragm 22 which is supported as a part of the channel in such a manner as to face the individual electrode 12 at a predetermined distance. The ejection control method for the liquid droplet ejection head comprises; a step of displacing the diaphragm 22 to a position, where a predetermined interval is set between the diaphragm 22 and the individual electrode 12, by applying a first voltage between the diaphragm 22 and the individual electrode 12 so as to generate an electrostatic force; and a step of subsequently ejecting the liquid droplet by furthermore applying a driving voltage as a second voltage for ejecting the liquid droplet between the diaphragm 22 and the individual electrode 12, generating the electrostatic force between the diaphragm 22 and the individual electrode 12, and displacing the diaphragm 22 so as to pressurize a liquid in the channel.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008171697-A (JP)
Title: Cap of connector
Inventor: TANI HIRONOBU
IPC: H01R13/52
Filed: 2007-01-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cap of connector in which contact failure and deformation of a connector pressing plate spring or the like hardly occur even in the case dimension errors of a product become large.  <P>SOLUTION: The cap of connector 1 has a boss 1b of cross-sectional rectangular shape extending toward an open face from the bottom of a bottomed box-shape outer frame 1a, and a connecting terminal is arranged on the side face of the boss 1b. The cap has a projection portion 2c of cross-sectional U-shape which is inserted from the open face and has an opposed face to cover two opposed side faces of the boss 1b, and the dimensions are established so that the opposed two side faces of the boss and the opposed face to cover the two side faces may be engaged.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008177247-A (JP)
Title: Board inspection system
Inventor: YAMAOKA SHUJI
IPC: G01V3/10
Filed: 2007-01-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a board inspection system using a linear scale probe which houses a movable shaft fitted with a magnetic material disposed in a magnetic field excited with high-frequency power and electrically detects a state of move of the movable shaft.  <P>SOLUTION: The board inspection system includes an inspection panel on which a plurality of linear scale probes are arranged, each linear scale probe having a movable shaft that comes into contact with each of electronic components mounted on a board. When the inspection panel is put on the board, the movable shaft in contact with the electronic component moves, causing the magnetic material to move in a magnetic field generated from an exciting coil to which high-frequency power is applied in the linear scale probe. The move of the magnetic material in the magnetic field is detected by detecting coils, which outputs a voltage signal upon detection of the move. Based on the voltage signal, the presence/absence and mounting state of an electronic component to be mounted on the board are inspected and determined.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007133904-A (JP)
Title: Cooking recipe retrieval database system
Inventor: TSUNEKANE KOJI
IPC: G06Q50/22
Filed: 2007-01-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of eliminating only individual specification information from personal information, managing only individual information, and comparing the individual information with a cooking recipe management database, thereby displaying a matched cooking recipe.  <P>SOLUTION: In the system, various individual information such as favorite food, least favorite food, allergy information are inputted for each arbitrary ID and are stored in a database. When a registered ID is inputted from a retrieval screen, only the information matched with the cooking recipe database 102 after comparison are displayed on a retrieval result screen.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008173336-A (JP)
Title: Slot machine
Inventor: NAKAJIMA KAZUTOSHI
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2007-01-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the amusement of the play by varying a sense of expectancy of a player for the announcement of determination that the extraction of a special display result should be permitted (announcement of setting of a bonus winning flag) according to the timing in the play and making the play lively thereby.  <P>SOLUTION: After a big bonus is terminated, the game state is controlled to be RT which is continued for 77 game rounds. When a regular bonus, a big bonus 1 or a big bonus 2 is won, a bonus announcing lamp 66 is lighted. When these bonuses are won before 77 game rounds are consumed after termination of the big bonus, the bonus announcing lamp 66 is not lighted until 11, 33, 55 or 77 game rounds are consumed after termination of the big bonus.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007226208-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: MATAYOSHI AKIRA
IPC: G03G21/14
Filed: 2007-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain appropriate image forming and to prolong the life of an intermediate transfer belt even when the surface condition of the intermediate transfer belt is changed or deteriorated by soiling or damage.  <P>SOLUTION: A printer 100 includes: image forming sections 5Y, 5C, 5M and 5B for forming toner images on photoreceptor drums 51 respectively by an electrophotographic system; the intermediate transfer belt 11 to which the toner images on the photoreceptor drums 51 are to be transferred in a superimposed way; a driving roller 41 and a driven roller 42 which the intermediate transfer belt 11 is placed on and are adapted to drive the intermediate transfer belt 11 in a placed condition; an optical detection member 10 for detecting the surface condition of the intermediate transfer belt 11; and a control section for controlling the surface speed of the photoreceptor drum 51 and/or the moving speed of the intermediate transfer belt 11 based on an output obtained from the optical detection member 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008180396-A (JP)
Title: Flow control device and method for soot blower in steam-power generating facility
Inventor: SUGINO YASUYUKI
IPC: F23J3/00
Filed: 2007-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem in which a steam flow changes as the pressure in a boiler changes, and the steam with higher flow than is necessary for removing attached ash is released when the pressure in the boiler is low, and to reduce energy consumption by properly controlling the steam flow.  <P>SOLUTION: This flow control device 200 of a soot blower for blowing off the ash attached to a heat exchanger in an air preheater 80 in steam-powder generating facilities comprising the boiler 10 and the air preheater 80, comprises a flow calculating means 220 for calculating a set value of the flow of the steam jetted from the soot blower on the basis of a power supply command to the steam-power generating facilities, a flow measuring means 250 for measuring the flow of the steam jetted by the soot blower, a comparing means 230 for comparing the steam flow actually measured with the set value of the steam flow calculated by the flow calculating means, and a flow adjusting means 240 for adjusting the steam flow on the basis of a result of the comparison.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007226945-A (JP)
Title: Perpendicular magnetic recording medium
Inventor: LEE TAEK DONG
IPC: G11B5/65
Filed: 2007-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a soft magnetic underlayer structure which suppresses a magnetic vortex to effectively reduce noise.  <P>SOLUTION: The perpendicular magnetic recording medium has a substrate, a first soft magnetic underlayer formed on the substrate, a perpendicular anisotropic middle layer that is formed on the first soft magnetic underlayer and has perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, a second soft magnetic underlayer formed on the perpendicular anisotropic middle layer, a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the second soft magnetic underlayer. The second soft magnetic underlayer has such a thickness that the energy density of a Neel wall is smaller than the energy density of a Bloch wall. The thickness of the second soft magnetic underlayer is in a range of 5nm to 20nm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007237733-A (JP)
Title: Primed substrate comprising radiation cured inkjet printing image
Inventor: YLITALO CAROLINE M
IPC: B41M5/52
Filed: 2007-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a priming process of various polymer sheets and the various polymer sheets for commercial graphic films having durability for outdoor usage for advertising and promotional displays.  <P>SOLUTION: The priming comprises a step of applying a primer on a substrate of a variety of polymeric sheets or polymer materials using a method to obtain an inkjet printing image with radiation curable inks, and also a method of inkjet printing by means of radiation curable inks is used.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008188772-A (JP)
Title: Extrusion mold and surface layer for charged roller
Inventor: TAKIZAWA YUSUKE
IPC: B29C48/32
Filed: 2007-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a resin tube is not molded in a proper extrusion amount under proper resin pressure in the case where the pressure drop of a molten resin in a mold is very high.  <P>SOLUTION: In a mold 100 for performing the extrusion molding of the resin tube having a double layered structure from the resin extrusion port 42 opened to the leading end surface of a nozzle, the resin passage 41 communicating with the resin extrusion port 42 has an annular confluent part 34 where a plurality of molten resins meet with each other and the annular throttling part 43 positioned on the downstream side of the confluent part 34 to keep the diameter gradually contracted in the flow direction of the molten resins. The cross-sectional area reducing ratio A/B of the passage cross-sectional area B of the downstream end of the throttling part 43 with respect to the passage cross-sectional area A of the upstream end of the throttling part 43 is 50-80. The inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the resin passage 41 which demarcate at least a part of the throttling part 43 and are inclined with respect to the center axis of the mold are parallel to each other and the angle formed by the inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the resin passage 41 and the center axis C is 10-45°.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008190427-A (JP)
Title: Internal combustion engine
Inventor: ENDO GENSHIRO
IPC: F02F7/00
Filed: 2007-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the arrangement of a rocker shaft in a limited space between a cylinder head and a head cover in an internal combustion engine using the rocker shaft.  <P>SOLUTION: In the internal combustion engine, a camshaft 12 and the rocker shaft 14 are supported by the head cover 2. More concretely, the camshaft 12 is supported by bearings comprising a plurality of journals 4 formed inside the head cover 2 and cam caps attached to the journals 4, and the rocker shaft 14 is supported by through holes 10 formed at the cam caps 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008193825-A (JP)
Title: Ad conversion control circuit and related technology thereof
Inventor: AZUMA KATSUJI
IPC: H02P6/06
Filed: 2007-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problem: when carrying out inverter control with higher accuracy, it is required to shorten a carrier frequency and carry out complicated computation using CPU and thus shorten an AD conversion time; in present AD conversion control circuits, it is possible only to set a channel on which conversion is started and a channel on which conversion is terminated and it is impossible to select optimal two phases corresponding to a state with hardware; and, therefore, there is no choice but carrying out AD conversion of three phases and it takes time more than necessary to carry out AD conversion.  <P>SOLUTION: An AD conversion circuit includes: a selector 11 for selecting a signal to be input to an AD converter 12 from among multiple analog input signals Sa; an AD conversion timing control circuit 14 that controls timing with which the AD converter starts AD conversion; a duty ratio comparison circuit 17 that compares the values on the three duty ratio setting registers of a PWM circuit 10a; and an AD conversion channel selection circuit 15 that selects two channels for controlling the selector 11 on which AD conversion is carried out based on the result of the comparison.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008191991-A (JP)
Title: Asset confirmation system and asset confirmation method
Inventor: OKAMOTO KOJI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2007-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an asset confirmation system and method capable of suppressing the decrease of the reliability of an actual article confirming operation to be occurred when the deputy of a person who should perform the actual article confirmation of an asset performs the actual article confirmation of the asset.  <P>SOLUTION: A user storage part 1 stores the user ID of a user, the asset ID of an asset whose actual article confirmation should be performed by the user and the contact destination of the user by associating them with each other for every user. A stocktaking object asset storage part 5 stores the asset ID and the user ID of the user who has performed actual article confirmation about an asset corresponding to the asset ID by associating them with each other. When the user ID associated with the asset ID in the stocktaking object asset storage part 5 is not associated with the asset ID in the user storage part 1, a management part 18 reads the contact destination associated with the asset ID from the user storage part 1, and transmits a message indicating a request for the approval of actual article confirmation performed by proxy to the contact destination.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008190681-A (JP)
Title: Gear, drive transmission device, and image forming device
Inventor: KISHI TAKEHIRO
IPC: F16H55/06
Filed: 2007-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce engagement vibration while increasing the accuracy and rigidity of gears used for a driving system for forming images in an image forming device.  <P>SOLUTION: The portions 111 of a gear other than the tooth flank thereof are made of a metal material, and the portions 101 thereof near the tooth flank are made of a resin material. To increase the joining strength between two member, that are, the metal material of the portion 111 of the gear other than the tooth flank and the resin material of the portion 101 thereof near the tooth flank, projections 115 are formed on a joining part 116 and a resin is poured into the joining part. To uniformize the flow of the resin and prevent the outer diameter accuracy of the gear from being affected, the quantity of the projections is made equal or smaller than that of the teeth of the gear, and the shapes of the projections is made identical and symmetric. Consequently, the images less in color shift and nonuniformness can be output in the image forming device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008191098-A (JP)
Title: Light projection device
Inventor: ABE SHINYA
IPC: G01C3/06
Filed: 2007-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light projection device for a radar device capable of emitting a beam correctly in a target projection direction.  <P>SOLUTION: The projection direction of projection light 61 radiated from a laser diode 31 is set by a projection lens 37 moved by an actuator 40. The position of the projection lens 37 is detected by position detectors 43a, 43b. The projection direction of projection light 61 is followed by movement of the projection lens 37 by movement of the actuator 40 by a scanner control part 25. The scanner control part 25 controls the actuator 40 so that the projection lens 37 is stopped at each position corresponding to a plurality of prescribed directions, while moving the projection lens 37 so that the projection light 61 can scan a prescribed direction range.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008199160-A (JP)
Title: Converting device, method, program and recording medium for asynchronous and synchronous communication network, and communication system
Inventor: MATSUMOTO TAKESHI
IPC: H04L7/00
Filed: 2007-02-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform stable synchronous communication between synchronous multiplex communication devices by transmitting multiframe data of a plurality of channels of a synchronous communication network to an IP communication network through channel dispersion without requiring external network synchronization.  <P>SOLUTION: While legacy multiplex transmission devices 10-1 to 10-3 and legacy IP converters 12-1 to 12-3 are put in one group G1, master-slave relation of clock synchronization of one of a first clock slave and a second clock slave is set. The legacy IP converter 12-2 set as the first clock slave performs clock synchronization by controlling a clock frequency of a variable clock unit so that a receiving buffer amount stored in a receiving buffer of a one specified channel of the legacy IP converter 12-1 set as a clock master becomes stable at a center value. The legacy IP converter 12-3 set as the second clock slave performs clock synchronization by controlling the clock frequency so that the receiving buffer amount of one specified channel of the legacy IP converter 12-2 becomes stable at the center value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008198790-A (JP)
Title: Compound magnetic powder
Inventor: IINUMA HIDEHIKO
IPC: H01F1/153
Filed: 2007-02-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compound magnetic powder can be suitably used for a material of an electronic component such as an inductor for removing noise with properties of low distortion, low thermal emission, and high insulating resistance required, having a high magnetic permeability and a high insulation, excellent in the magnetic characteristic, satisfactory adhesion between magnetic powders, and capable of providing a molding having a high mechanical strength.  <P>SOLUTION: The compound magnetic powder with its surface coated by a thermoplastic resin has an electric resistance value of not less than 1.0×10<SP>10</SP>Ω when direct current voltages of 100 V to 1,000 V are applied, apparanet densities of 1.0 to 3.5 g/cm<SP>3</SP>, and average particle diameters of 10 to 200 μm. The insulation and the heat resistance of the compound magnetic powder can be controlled by dispersing the insuating fine particle to the thermoplastic resin.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008196228-A (JP)
Title: Smart keyless device of vehicle
Inventor: HAMADA YASUSHI
IPC: B60R25/04
Filed: 2007-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a smart keyless device of a vehicle which can provide an immobilizer function thereto without separately setting a radio-signal generation means or an aerial used for sending a radio signal.  <P>SOLUTION: Either the predetermined radio-signal generation means or the aerial used for sending a radio signal used for the smart keyless authentication communication (s2, s3) is shared with the radio-signal generation means or an aerial used for transmitting and receiving a radio signal used for the immobilizer authentication communication (s5, s6). Then the smart keyless control means is provided with the receiving means for the immobilizer authentication communication and a startup control means. The receiving means for the immobilizer authentication communication performs receiving control of a radio signal from the transponder received by the aerial used for transmitting and receiving the radio signal used for the immobilizer authentication communication which is shared (s6). The startup control means performs startup control of an engine (s8) based on the received signal from the receiving means used for the immobilizer authentication communication.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008205127-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
Inventor: NAMIKATA HIROSHI
IPC: H01L21/318
Filed: 2007-02-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which can obtain a gate insulation film having good characteristics while sufficiently suppressing diffusion of impurities from a gate electrode.  <P>SOLUTION: After forming an element isolation insulation film, an n-well, and a p-well on the surface of an Si substrate, the Si substrate is cleaned as a pretreatment (step S1). Thereafter, the surface of the Si substrate is thermally oxidized by RTO method as oxidation of a base to form a silicon oxide film (step S2). Then, the silicon oxide film is plasma-nitrided (step S3). As a result of the plasma nitriding, active nitrogen is introduced and the silicon oxide film is nitrided and consequently a silicon oxynitrided film is obtained. Then, annealing is conducted in an ammonia atmosphere (step S4). As a result, nitrogen is introduced near the surface of the silicon oxynitrided film. Then, annealing is conducted in an atmosphere containing nitrogen and oxygen as an after-annealing (post-annealing) (step S5).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008199948-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing continuously fermented product
Inventor: HANAKAWA MASAYUKI
IPC: C12P1/00
Filed: 2007-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for eliminating the cleaning of fouling or biofilm which becomes a cause for clogging of a separation membrane in the continuous fermentation of microorganisms to use a membrane for separating the product.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for producing a continuously fermented product comprises the supply of a solution containing 0.1-50 wt.% 4C polyol, especially erythritol to a separation membrane. The polyol-containing solution may be supplied to the primary side or to the secondary side of the separation membrane, or may be introduced by mixing it in a medium.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT