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Patent JP-2001208339-A (JP)
Title: Hot water supply apparatus
Inventor: SUYAMA HIDEYA
IPC: F23L17/00
Filed: 2000-01-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot water supply apparatus having an exhaust opening and an air supply opening on the front side in which wind pressure withstanding performance is enhanced, by changing the exhausting and air supplying directions to sideways while keeping the low and slim profile as it is and good air supply and exhaust are ensured by keeping the supply and exhaust air pressures at the same level. SOLUTION: This hot water supply apparatus having an exhaust opening and an air supply opening 14 in the front face of a front cover 11 comprises an exhaust cover 20 fixed onto the front cover 11 while covering the exhaust opening and the opposite side parts thereof and introducing exhaust gas from the exhaust opening sideways, an air supply cover 30 fixed onto the front cover 11 independently from the exhaust cover 20 while covering the air supply opening 14 and the opposite side parts thereof and introducing air to the air supply opening 14 from sideways. The exhaust cover 20 and the air supply cover 30 are provided, respectively, with a ventilating direction determining means for closing any one of openings 21a, 31 provided at the opposite side end parts thereof and ventilating the other.
Patent JP-2001208194-A (JP)
Title: Gear shift controller for automatic transmission
Inventor: MAKIYAMA AKIHIRO
IPC: F16H61/16
Filed: 2000-01-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear shift controller for an automatic transmission capable of preventing a feeling of physical disorder like shift hunting from being given to a driver during the traveling by having a means for permitting the up-shift while considering the acceleration performance, that is, a possible degree of the acceleration after the up-shift. SOLUTION: This controller comprises a present shift stage excess driving force potential estimating operating mans for estimating and operating the present shift stage excess driving force potential representing the acceleration performance capable of keeping the acceleration under the present driving condition and the present shift stage, a next shift stage excess driving force potential estimating and operating means for estimating and operating the next shift stage excess driving force potential representing the acceleration performance capable of keeping the acceleration in the next shift stage in the up-shift under the present driving condition, and an up-shift judging means for permitting the up-shift by a shift-stage selecting means when the difference between the next shift stage excess driving force potential and the present shift stage excess driving force potential is above an excess driving force difference threshold value, and forbidding the up-shift by the shift stage selecting means when the difference is less than the excess driving force difference threshold value.
Patent JP-2001214729-A (JP)
Title: Exhaust silencer for automobile
Inventor: SASAKI SATORU
IPC: F01N1/08
Filed: 2000-02-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure gastightness between a supporting hole formed in a baffle inside a muffler for supporting the tail tube and a tail tube by forming the supporting hole into a round shape capable of being easily machined and ensuring strength near the supporting hole. SOLUTION: This exhaust silencer for an automobile comprises a tail tube 205, partitioned by a partition panel 206 into a first passage 203 where exhaust gas led from an inlet tube 200 to a first volume chamber 103 in the muffler 100 flows in and a second passage 204 where the exhaust gas in the volume chamber 103 flows from a third volume chamber 105 connected through pass tubes 201, 202, inside the muffler 100. The tail tube 205 penetrates the muffler 100 from the third volume chamber 105, and comprises a section at which tip parts 203e, 204e of the first passage 203 and the second passage 204 in the volume chamber 105, respectively, become the same length.  The first passage 203 is blocked to the volume chamber 105 by a cap 207 and provided with an opening part 203p in a side surface for communicating to the volume chamber 103, and the tip part 204e of the second passage 204 is opened to the volume chamber 105.
Patent JP-2000298222-A (JP)
Title: Optical circuit element
Inventor: KAMITOKU MASAKI
IPC: H04B10/29
Filed: 2000-02-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical circuit element for periodically fetching optical signal from a wavelength multiplexed optical signal, and eliminating or multiplexing it, at a good yield and at a low cost. SOLUTION: This optical circuit element constituted by connecting a 1st and a 2nd optical multiplexing and branching elements 603, 608 via a 1st and a 2nd waveguides 604, 605, inserting a 3rd optical multiplexing and branching element 606 in the 1st waveguide 604, and connecting a 3rd waveguide 607 of a looped form with the 3rd multiplexing and branching element 606. In this case, the optical circuit element is made to be easily adjustable and be provided with a stable characteristics by constituting the 3rd optical multiplexing and branching element 606 by using a multi-mode interference waveguide.
Patent JP-2001215026-A (JP)
Title: Bathroom heating equipment
Inventor: SUGIMOTO KIYOSHI
IPC: F24D15/00
Filed: 2000-02-02
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bathroom heating equipment capable of effectively heating a floor of a washing place with low cost installation without spoiling an outer appearance by supplying hot water into a pipe. SOLUTION: In a bathroom including a bathtub 1 and a washing place 2, a floor 3 of the washing place 1 comprises a floor body 31 and a pipe 32 through which hot water is circulated, and the pipe 32 buried under the floor body 31 is integrated with the same.
Patent JP-2001212422-A (JP)
Title: Gas separating device
Inventor: WATANABE KENSUKE
IPC: B01D53/22
Filed: 2000-02-03
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provided a gas separating device hardly damaging a gas separating membrane even if gas separating treatment is performed at high temperature in the gas separating device in which an inorganic porous hollow membrane group is housed as the gas separating membrane. SOLUTION: This gas separating device is constituted by forming a module consisting of a U-shaped inorganic porous hollow membrane group carrying a functional layer on the surface of the membrane, housing the module in a sealed vessel so that one side end part of the follow membrane group is connected to an introducing port of the gas to be treated and the other end part of the hollow membrane group is connected to a discharging port of separated residual gas to take out separated gas from a recovering port of the sealed vessel.
Patent JP-2001216813-A (JP)
Title: Lighting fixture for vehicle
Inventor: WATANABE TOMOYUKI
IPC: F21W107/00
Filed: 2000-01-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting fixture for vehicles that enables lighting in the side-rearward direction of the fixture and releases restriction on designing the fixture as well, and that will not cause degradation of appearance. SOLUTION: This is equipped with a lighting fixture body 1, disposed with a bulb 14 in the interior, a lens 2 that is set in such a way as covering from the front to rear and sides of the fixture body 1 and that has a retroreflecting lens part 22 for shielding light emitted from the bulb 14 as a shield portion at a position lying slightly rearward, and a reflector 18 that reflects light emitting from the bulb 14 and externally radiates it through the lens 2, and the reflector 18 is equipped with a main reflector 15 disposed at the rear side of the bulb 14 and a sub-reflector 16 disposed at the front side of the bulb 14 to reflect light toward the side rearward.  Even when light emitted from the bulb 14 is obstructed from radiating toward side back of the lighting tool with the shield portion 22 provided on the lens 2, radiating toward side to rear of the lamp becomes possible with reflection at the sub-reflector 16, to enable satisfying the characteristics of light distribution demanded.
Patent JP-2001221185-A (JP)
Title: Turbo rotary equipment
Inventor: HORIKAWA KOJI
IPC: F04D19/04
Filed: 2000-02-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide economical turbo rotary equipment capable of improving durability by preventing breakage and the like of a bearing, improving a pump efficiency, and reducing costs. SOLUTION: A gas bearing 5 is disposed as a thrust bearing for pivotally supporting energization to an intake port 1K side of a rotor 2, a touch-down bearing 6 is disposed as a thrust bearing for pivotally supporting energization toward an exhaust port 1H side of the rotor 2, and the rotor 2 is pivotally supported by the touch-down bearing 6 when the rotor 2 is started and stopped. When gas is compressed at a high speed rotation of the rotor 2 by a pump, the rotor 2 is energized to the intake port 1H side by a pressure difference it is pivotally supported by a gas bearing 5, and the rotor 2 is separated from the touch-down bearing 6 by only few movement in an axial direction. As a result, a clearance between a stator 1T and the rotor 2 is few and a pump efficiency is improved.
Patent JP-2001218542-A (JP)
Title: Fishline-guiding structure for spinning reel
Inventor: FUROMOTO YOSHIYUKI
IPC: A01K89/01
Filed: 2000-02-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the entanglement of fishline to be reduced easily in a fishline-guiding structure for a spinning reel. SOLUTION: An arm part 40a of a first bail-supporting member 40 in a bail arm 34 is arranged in the interior of a sphere having a first distance R1 which is the maximum distance from the control point P of the contacting point of a fixed shaft cover 46 and a bail 41 to the outer periphery part of the arm part 40a, as the radius. The distances R1a and R1b from the control point P to the outer periphery part are formed so as to be gradually shorten in the outer direction from the first distance R1. That is, the distance R1b is formed so as to be shorter than the distance R1a.
Patent JP-2001222407-A (JP)
Title: Fifo circuit
Inventor: HANAKI YOSHITAKA
IPC: G06F5/06
Filed: 2000-02-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the transferring speed of an FIFO circuit to be used for the connection of equipment whose clock frequencies are different and the input and output of data. SOLUTION: This FIFO circuit is provided with a circuit for generating an input pointer synchronizing with an input clock, a circuit for synchronizing the generated input pointer with an output clock, a circuit for generating an output pointer synchronizing with the output clock, a clock crossing-over circuit for an input side for synchronizing the generated output pointer with the input pointer, an input clock synchronizing FIFO state generating circuit for generating an FIFO state synchronizing with the input clock from the input pointer and the output pointer synchronizing with the input clock, and an output clock synchronizing FIFO state generating circuit for generating an FIFO state synchronizing with the output pointer from the input pointer synchronizing with the output clock and the output pointer synchronizing with the output clock.
Patent JP-2001222155-A (JP)
Title: Powder toner supply method, powder toner supply container and powder toner to fill up container with
Inventor: HASEGAWA HISAMI
IPC: G03G19/00
Filed: 2000-02-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide powder toner supply technique by which the automatic supply of powder toner that the powder toner is not suspended in the air is realized and which uses a powder toner storing means capable of being recovered in a compact state by constituting a container of flexible material and folding it after its use, that, is the technique by which the supply amount of the powder toner is made stable, the packing of the powder toner in the container after preservation is prevented and further the residual amount of the powder toner is made small. SOLUTION: This powder toner supply method is a method for supplying the powder toner to the developing means of an image forming device for developing an electrostatic latent image or a magnetic latent image with the powder toner. In the method, a toner replenishing device equipped with the toner storing means which can be coupled with a pump means for automatically supplying the toner to the developing means of the image forming device is used, and the average number molecular weight Mn of the toner with which the power toner storing means is filled is 2000 to 7000.
Patent JP-2001216519-A (JP)
Title: Traffic monitor device
Inventor: UMEZAKI YASUSHI
IPC: G06T7/20
Filed: 2000-02-04
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect occurrence of an emergency like a traffic accident. SOLUTION: An image pickup device 1 picks up and outputs a picture of a monitor point with a prescribed period. The picture outputted from the image pickup device 1 is inputted to a picture input means 2a of a traffic monitor device 2. A movement vector extraction means 2b first generates a background picture from plural inputted pictures and obtains a difference from a newly inputted picture to specify an area, where a moving object exists, and then extracts movement vectors from the specified area. A parameter calculation means 2c regards movement vectors as segments to extract their inclinations and intercepts as parameters. A plotting means 2d plots parameters of each movement vector in a two-dimensional coordinate system having inclinations and intercepts as bases.  When parameters are plotted in an area different from normal, an abnormality discrimination means 2e discriminates occurrence of an emergency to inform a control center or the like (omitted in Figure) through a network.
Patent JP-2001228499-A (JP)
Title: Image pickup device and image pickup method
Inventor: YAMASHITA NORIYUKI
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2000-02-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically detect a panning mode and to make its setting/ releasing automatic. SOLUTION: The angular speed of a digital camera is set in an angular speed sensor 9. The detected angular speed is supplied to integrating circuits 15X, 15Y and a panning mode detecting circuit 12. The supplied angular speed is integrated and the moving quantity of the digital camera is determined in the integrating circuits 15X, 15Y. An optical axis varying element is driven to change the optical axis in a direction where the movement of the digital camera is negated according to the digitalized moving quantity. When the panning mode is detected, a switch circuit 14 is turned on in the panning mode detecting circuit 12. The vertical synchronizing signal extracted from video signals is supplied as a reset signal via a terminal 13 to the integrating circuits 15X, 15Y.
Patent JP-2001230664-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor integrated circuit
Inventor: NOTANI HIROMI
IPC: H03K19/00
Filed: 2000-02-15
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accelerate the operating speed of an internal during an active period. SOLUTION: This semiconductor integrated circuit is provided with a first MOS transistor QA1, having one source/drain electrode for receiving power supply voltage and the other source/drain electrode connected to a pseudo-power supply line VA1, a second MOS transistor QA2 having one source/drain electrode connected to the pseudo-power supply line and the other source/drain electrode connected to a substrate power supply line VA2, and third MOS transistors Q3 and Q4 having one source/drain electrode connected to the pseudo- power supply line and a substrate electrode connected to the substrate power supply line. When the first and second MOS transistors are turned on, in the third MOS transistor, the voltage of the substrate electrode is biased to one source electrode in the forward bias direction.
Patent JP-2001029602-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: TAKEMOTO TAKATOSHI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2000-02-15
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine whose game development is full of changes capable of sufficiently arousing the thrills and excitement of a player to winning. SOLUTION: A variable display means 30 is provided with a center display area and plural annular display areas surrounding the center display area from an inner side to an outer side for two or more times. Also, a pattern matching game execution means 110 executes a pattern matching game to be winning when plural patterns for constituting a special prize display state are arranged on one line passing through the center display area on the variable display means 30 based on the establishment of a start condition such as the entry of a ball to a start winning port 60.
Patent JP-2001228713-A (JP)
Title: Image forming device
Inventor: BETSUSHIYO YUUJI
IPC: G03G15/16
Filed: 2000-02-17
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an excellent image whose color difference is small by preventing retransferred toner from being mixed with color toner in the developing device of an image forming part in an image forming device having plural image forming parts using no cleaner owing to cleaning simultaneous with development. SOLUTION: By setting the developing sleeves of the developing devices 4Y to 4K to a non-rotating state and making the absolute value of the surface potential of photoreceptor drums 1Y to 1K on the downstream side of the discharged toner in the rotating direction of the drums 1Y to 1K smaller than the absolute value of developing bias applied to the developing sleeve, the retransferred toner is prevented from being mixed with the toner of respective colors in the devices 4Y to 4K of the respective image forming parts SY to SK and the excellent image whose color difference is small is obtained.
Patent JP-2001231486-A (JP)
Title: Japanese hotchpotch soup and method for producing japanese hotchpotch
Inventor: NOZAKI HISASHI
IPC: A23L35/00
Filed: 2000-02-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a Japanese hotchpotch soup enabling prevention fish paste products from softening and getting out of shape to be certainly realized through giving the Japanese hotchpotch soup itself a device so as not to cause softening and getting out of shape even boiled for a long time, and to provide a method for producing the Japanese hotchpotch. SOLUTION: This Japanese hotchpotch soup is obtained by including 100 ppm-350 ppm of calcium. The other objective method for producing Japanese hotchpotch comprises boiling fish paste products in the above Japanese hotchpotch soup.
Patent JP-2001200212-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic material-containing coating material and structural material
Inventor: MATSUI SHOICHI
IPC: C09D5/23
Filed: 2000-01-17
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide coating materials and structural materials which are substitutes for the blocks having irregularities in their surfaces or the like for supporting walking of the visually impaired person according to conventional techniques, the irregularities of the surface of the blocks having obstructed the traffic of a wheelchair or the like since sidewalks have been paved with such blocks. SOLUTION: A magnetic material with magnetism is added to a coating material or a structural material with which a sidewalk or the like is then paved in the form of a belt, and the magnetism of the magnetic material can be detected by a magnetic sensor positioned on a walking stick or the like to advice the visually impaired person of the direction or the like and to prevent the traffic of a wheelchair or the like from being obstructed since the surface of the sidewalk can be flattened.
Patent JP-2001197962-A (JP)
Title: Hydraulic device which vertically moves bed under horizontal state
Inventor: KITADA YOSHINOBU
IPC: A47C19/04
Filed: 2000-01-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple and light-weight device without requiring a parallel moving mechanism in order to keep the bed surface horizontal, in a vertically moving type bed. SOLUTION: A double acting type hydraulic cylinder is used as the legs of a bed, and a piping connection is performed in such a manner that the piston moving amounts of the double acting type hydraulic cylinders may become equal. Thus, the vertical moving of the bed under a horizontal state is made possible.
Patent JP-2000252794-A (JP)
Title: METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING HARDWARE REQUIRED FOR n-BIT INPUT DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND n-BIT DIGITAL SIGNAL INPUT SYSTEM
Inventor: ROBERT B SUTASUZEUSUKII
IPC: G06F7/00
Filed: 2000-02-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an operation optimizing system for a device that is preferably a digital finite impulse response(FIR) filter and utilizes a signal processing function including accumulation and to obtain its method. SOLUTION: A silicon area required on a chip can considerably be reduced by decreasing number of required gates in this system and method. A maximum bit number required for proper processing is calculated in advance as a bit number required for describing an output signal. The bit number required for the output signal can be reduced by a number denoting a modulo B decided by a system architect. A value used generally is 5 and 6 for the modulo B. The hardware can remarkably be reduced with an error smaller than a fraction of an output LSB by eliminating a MSB bit in an internal expression, truncating two least significant bits(LSB) and rounding of a 3rd LSB in each stage of an 8-tap FIR filter 100.
Patent JP-2001243284-A (JP)
Title: System for analyzing hobby and taste and market research method
Inventor: KAWAI AKIHIKO
IPC: G06F17/00
Filed: 2000-02-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hobby and taste analyzing system and a market research method, by which user's taste information is analyzed by successively collecting hobby and taste information through the use of an Internet environment and applying it to a market research. SOLUTION: The system is provided with an information distributing server for inputting an information category and storing the information an individual information terminal for receiving information from the server, an information management server for registering the information of an end user, storing information obtained by updating the information and managing it, a log collecting device for recording the history of data which is performed in the terminal, a log integrated server for storing the collection of logs and an analyzing device for analyzing end user information from integrated log information.
Patent JP-2001242370-A (JP)
Title: Lens device
Inventor: YOSHIDA SHIGERU
IPC: G03B17/12
Filed: 2000-02-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a zoom lens device 10 capable of easily switching photographing in a visible light region and photographing in a near infrared region without changing a specified viewing angle by attaching lenses 44 and 46 correcting a focal position in accordance with the photographing in the visible light region and lenses 48 and 50 correcting the focal position in accordance with the photographing in the near infrared region to the turret plate 52 of an extender 42 and turning the turret plate 52. SOLUTION: In this zoom lens device 10, plural lenses 44, 46, 48 and 50 are attached to the turret plate 52 of the extender 42. The lenses 44 and 46 correct the focal position in accordance with the photographing in the visible light region and the lenses 48 and 50 correct the focal position in accordance with the photographing in the near infrared region. The turret plate 52 is rotated by a motor 60 and switches the lens on an optical axis 14 by rotation.
Patent JP-2001240818-A (JP)
Title: Nonhalogen flame-retardant adhesive tape
Inventor: DOMON YOJI
IPC: C09J7/02
Filed: 2000-02-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a nonhalogen flame-retardant adhesive tape having reliable heat resistance. SOLUTION: This nonhalogen flame-retardant adhesive tape has a heat insulating layer installed on the front side of a nonhalogen flame-retardant film in the nonhalogen flame-retardant adhesive tape obtained by arranging an adhesive layer on the back side of the nonhalogen flame-retardant film.