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Tadahiro Araake, Kanagawa JP
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|REACTOR EMPLOYING HIGH-TEMPERATURE AIR COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY - In a burning air feeding device (
Tadahiro Asaishi, Utsunomiya-Shi JP
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|SCANNING EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A scanning exposure apparatus is configured to project a pattern of an original onto a substrate by a projection optical system while scanning the original and the substrate, thereby scanning-exposing the substrate, the apparatus including a barycentric position adjusting unit configured to adjust, based on a target barycentric position, a barycentric position, in a direction of a scanning axis, of exposure light that irradiates an image plane of the projection optical system.
|SCANNING EXPOSURE APPARATUS - A scanning exposure apparatus includes a light source, a stage configured to move while having a substrate mounted thereon, a control unit configured to control the light source and the stage such that the substrate is exposed to radiant energy while the speed of the stage is changed, a filter having a transmittance distribution according to a change in speed of the stage and being disposed so as to be insertable into a light path for exposure, and a driving unit configured to scan the filter in synchronization with the scanning of the stage.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Asaishi, Utsunomiya-Shi JP
Tadahiro Fumikura, Chiba JP
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|Card Edge Connector - A card edge connector for electrically connects a mother board with a daughter board. The card edge connector includes an upper card edge connector with an insulating housing provided with a daughter board receiving recess. Latch arms extend from the insulating housing at both ends of the daughter board receiving recess. Each of the latch arms has a holding arm extending substantially parallel to a support arm. The holding arm is connected to the support arm by a folded portion. At least a portion of the support arm is divided into a first support section and a second support section. The first support section and the second support section each has an inclined portion extending diagonally away from the holding arm.
|Electrical Connector - An electrical connector for accepting an edge of a circuit board having a notch and a plurality of circuit board electrical contacts disposed on the edge is disclosed. The electrical connector has an insulative housing that accepts the edge of the circuit board. A positioning protrusion is formed on the insulative housing and is at least partially receivable within the notch of the edge of the circuit board. A plurality of contacts are carried by the insulative housing and contact the circuit board electrical contacts. The positioning protrusion has a lower portion that is less than or the same thickness as a width of the notch, an upper portion that is thicker than the width of the notch, and a middle portion connecting the upper portion and lower portion, where the middle portion having a thickness that changes symmetrically.
|Electrical ConnectorAANM Mashino; KeitaAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Mashino; Keita Tokyo JPAANM Fumikura; TadahiroAACI ChibaAACO JPAAGP Fumikura; Tadahiro Chiba JPAANM Aizawa; MasayukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Aizawa; Masayuki Tokyo JP - An electrical connector having a first and second housing. The first housing for mating with a mating connector, is provided with a contact being electrically connectable with a mating contact provided in the mating connector. The second housing movably supports the first housing in a mating direction and in an opposite direction and has a lock to be locked with the mating connector. A resilient member is supported by the second housing for biasing the first housing in the mating direction.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Fumikura, Chiba JP
Tadahiro Ishida, Tokyo-To JP
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|FILM TRANSFER SHEET AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM - A film transfer sheet including a sheet substrate provided with a peelable layer via a resin layer and a transparent sheet provided with an adhesive layer. The sheet substrate and the transparent sheet are laminated together such that the peelable layer is overlapped on the transparent sheet and peeling is designed to occur between the peelable layer and the transparent sheet so as to transfer the transparent sheet provided with the adhesive layer to a transfer-receiving member. The resin layer includes as an essential component a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a storage elastic modulus of 3.0×10
|THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET - It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal transfer sheet which has a high transfer sensitivity in thermal transfer printing to obtain a high density print, has a high sharpness of thermal transfer images, can prevent an abnormal transfer in printing even after being stored at high temperature and high humidity, and can provide a sufficiently satisfactory printed matter.
|THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET - A thermal transfer sheet comprising: a substrate; a heat resistant slip layer provided on one side of the substrate; an undercoat layer and a dye layer provided in that order on the other side of the substrate, wherein the undercoat layer is formed by using colloidal inorganic pigment ultrafine particles and a copolymer resin of vinyl pyrrolidone and vinyl acetate as main components.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Ishida, Tokyo-To JP
Tadahiro Ishida, Shinjuku-Ku JP
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|Method for image formation and intermediate transfer recording medium - The present invention provides a method for image formation, that can yield thermally transferred images which are excellent in various fastness properties even under severe service conditions, and an intermediate transfer recording medium for use in the method for image formation. The method for image formation comprises the steps of: providing an intermediate transfer recording medium comprising a substrate film and a transfer portion provided separably on the substrate film; forming an image on the intermediate transfer recording medium in its transfer portion; transferring the transfer portion onto an object; and, thereafter, again transferring the intermediate transfer recording medium in its next transfer portion once or more onto the object with the image formed thereon. In this case, in the intermediate transfer recording medium, a hologram image is set every at least second image plane, and an image can be formed on the transfer portion having the hologram image. This can offer an advantage that the transfer portion, with a thermally transferable image formed thereon, can be transferred onto an object followed by the superimposition of a transfer portion, to be served as the outermost surface in the final form onto the transferred portion once or more to provide a strong film for protecting the thermally transferred image. Thus, the problems of the prior art could have been solved.
|INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM - In an intermediate transfer medium, a substrate, protective layers having a layered structure of two or more layers, and a receiving layer are layered in this order. One layer in the protective layers having the layered structure contains, as a main component, one material or a mixture of two or more materials selected from the group consisting of polyesters having a high polymerization degree, a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of not less than 12,000 and a Tg of not less than 60° C., polycarbonates and polyester urethanes. Another layer in the protective layers having the layered structure contains one or more materials selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohols, polyvinyl butyrals, polyvinyl acetals and polyvinyl pyrrolidones or includes a cationic resin, and the receiving layer contains a side chain-type aralkyl-modified silicone in an amount of 0.5-5% by weight on a base of the total weight of the receiving layer.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Ishida, Shinjuku-Ku JP
Tadahiro Itoh, Kyoto JP
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|TRANSFER MOLDING APPARATUS AND TRANSFER MOLDING METHOD - The revolution angle of film feeding rollers are controlled so that a transfer film is moved in the feeding direction thereof by a feeding amount being set slightly larger than the interval between adjacent longitudinal direction positioning marks and then stopped before transfer molding is carried out by a transfer molding section, the film feeding rollers are driven to move the transfer film, having been moved in the feeding direction, in the returning direction, the revolution angle of the film feeding rollers are controlled and the transfer film is stopped at a longitudinal direction transfer position after a longitudinal direction positioning mark detection section has detected the longitudinal direction positioning mark, a stationary mold and a movable mold are closed, molten resin is injected into the cavity formed therebetween from an injection nozzle, and the decoration on the transfer film are transferred to molded products in synchronization with molding.
Tadahiro Kaminade, Yokohama-Shi JP
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|Retardation film and liquid crystal display device using the same - A retardation film, formed by stretching a film including a norbornene-based, ring-opening polymer containing a structural unit (A) represented by a formula (1), has high transparency, excellent wavelength dispersion characteristics in a single layer, is capable of providing specific retardation to broadband light, is extremely adhesive to other materials, is capable of attaining optical characteristics that are unique among negative birefringence characteristics, and is capable of providing a reverse dispersion of birefringence wavelength dispersion characteristics. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display device using the foregoing film.
|REVERSE DISPERSION RETARDATION FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A reverse dispersion retardation film, formed by stretching a film comprising a norbornene-based ring-opening copolymer containing a structural unit (A) represented by the following general formula (1):
Tadahiro Kaminade, Kanagawa JP
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|Catalyst and Method of Manufacturing the Same - A method of manufacturing a catalyst by suspending a titanium-containing silicate porous material in a solution with a metal salt being dissolved therein, and then by exposing the solution to ultra violet light to precipitate metal fine particles on the surface of the porous material.
|METHOD FOR PRODUCING NORBORNENE DERIVATIVE - A method for producing a norbornene derivative wherein,
|Tungsten-containing Mesoporous Silica Thin Film, Highly Hydrophilic Material Containing the Same, and Method for Producing Tungsten-Containing Mesoporous Silica Thin Film - A tungsten-containing mesoporous silica thin film, which is a mesoporous silica thin film formed from a solution containing a silica precursor and a water-soluble tungsten compound, and has a molar ratio (W/Si) of tungsten content to silicon content of 0.001 to 0.04, a film thickness of 0.1 to 5 μm, and an average pore diameter of 20 nm or less.
Tadahiro Kaneko, Tokyo JP
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|METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL FILM, OPTICAL FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND DISPLAY - A method of manufacturing an optical film by a solution casting method, in which a poor peeling region of a metal support can be eliminated by casting a dope on the surface of the metal support after a surface treatment film is formed on the surface of the metal support by atmospheric pressure plasma treatment or excimer UV treatment. Consequently, limitation on the conditions of film production is reduced and productivity is enhanced. Furthermore, since peeling of the film is enhanced, lateral variation in peeling position is reduced and variation in retardation value is reduced sharply, and thereby an optical film having optical characteristics excellent in transparency and flatness can be manufactured. Consequently, a method for manufacturing an optical film, an optical film, a polarizing plate and a display device which meet the demands of a high quality thin and wide protective film for polarizing plate can be provided.
Tadahiro Katane, Hitachiota-Shi JP
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|Foreign Matter Inspection Device and Foreign Matter Inspection Method - Disclosed are a foreign matter inspection device and a foreign matter inspection method, in which the accurate inspection of foreign matter is performed using captured images by continuous shooting in the state in which a movement locus due to the falling caused by the movement of the foreign matter along the inner wall of a container from the horizontal direction of the container as a result of rotation is formed so as to be long. A rotating device is provided with a rotation control means for executing the rotational motion in which container holding members for holding the container in a horizontal manner or at a constant inclination angle relative to the horizontal axis of the container, and the container are rotated at an angle of 60° or more, and then stopped, wherein a foreign matter detection means detects the foreign matter according to the movement locus of the foreign matter, which is formed using the captured images obtained by the continuous shooting for each rotational motion at constant time.
Tadahiro Kato, Nishishirakawa JP
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|Chamfering Apparatus For Silicon Wafer, Method For Producing Silicon Wafer, And Etched Silicon Wafer - The invention is directed to a chamfering apparatus for a silicon wafer to chamfer outer edge of a silicon wafer by using a chamfering grindstone, the chamfering apparatus including at least: a holder holding and rotating a silicon wafer; a chamfering grindstone chamfering the outer edge of the silicon wafer held by the holder; and a control apparatus for controlling a chamfered shape by controlling a relative position of the outer edge of the silicon wafer and the chamfering grindstone by numerical control, wherein the control apparatus controls and changes the relative position of the outer edge of the silicon wafer and the chamfering grindstone at the time of chamfering depending on the circumferential position of the silicon wafer held by the holder, a production method, and an etched silicon wafer. This provides a silicon wafer chamfering apparatus, production method and an etched silicon wafer that can suppress variations in the cross-sectional shape dimensions of a chamfered portion after an etching process.
|METHOD FOR SLICING WORKPIECE BY USING WIRE SAW AND WIRE SAW - The present invention is a wire saw in which a wire for slicing is wound around a plurality of rollers to form a wire row; the wire for slicing is driven axially in a reciprocating direction; a workpiece is sliced simultaneously at a plurality of points arranged in an axial direction by feeding the workpiece against the wire row with the workpiece cut into while a slurry is supplied to the wire for slicing; the wire saw controlling in such a manner that the workpiece is extracted while the wire is caused to travel at a speed of 2 m/min or less at the time of extracting the workpiece from the wire row after slicing the workpiece. As a result, there is provided a wire saw in which the workpiece sliced with the wire row of the wire saw can be extracted from the wire row with a simple structure without a negative influence on its slicing surface.
|DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WAFER - A double-disc grinding apparatus having at least: a rotatable ring-shaped holder for supporting a sheet-like wafer having a notch for indicating a crystal orientation from an outer circumference side along a radial direction, the holder having a protruding portion to be engaged with the crystal-orientation-indicating notch; and a pair of grindstones for simultaneously grinding both surfaces of the wafer supported by the holder, in which the holder is provided with at least one protruding portion separately from the protruding portion to be engaged with the crystal-orientation-indicating notch, and the both surfaces of the wafer are simultaneously ground by the pair of the grindstones while the wafer is supported and rotated with the at least one protruding portion being engaged with a wafer-supporting notch formed on the wafer.
|WORKPIECE DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING APPARATUS AND WORKPIECE DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING METHOD - A workpiece double-disc grinding apparatus including a holder that supports a thin-plate-like workpiece from an outer periphery along a radial direction and is rotatable; a pair of static pressure support members that support the holder from both sides along an axial direction of the rotation thereof in a contactless manner based on a static fluid pressure; and a pair of grinding stones that simultaneously grind both surfaces of a workpiece supported by the holder, in which an interval between the holder and the static pressure support member is not greater than 50 μm, and the static pressure of the fluid that is not lower than 0.3 MPa. As a result, the workpiece double-disc grinding apparatus and a workpiece double-disc grinding method can stabilize a position of the holder, which can be a cause that degrades a nanotopography of the workpiece in the double-disc grinding for the workpiece.
|METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED WAFER - A method for manufacturing a bonded wafer including bonding together a bond wafer and a base wafer each having a chamfered portion at an outer circumference and thinning the bond wafer, wherein the thinning of the bond wafer includes: a first step of performing surface grinding on the bond wafer such that a thickness of the bond wafer reaches a first predetermined thickness; a second step of removing an outer circumference portion of the ground bond wafer; and a third step of performing surface grinding on the bond wafer such that the thickness of the bond wafer reaches a second predetermined thickness.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Kato, Nishishirakawa JP
Tadahiro Kato, Fukushima JP
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|Wafer Production Method - The present invention is a wafer production method at least comprising a chamfering step of chamfering a wafer sliced from an ingot using a grindstone for chamfering, and a step of obtaining a product wafer thinner than the chamfered wafer by performing at least one or more than one of the following processes on the chamfered wafer: flattening, etching, and polishing, the method at least comprising a correction step of chamfering a dummy wafer equivalent in thickness to the product wafer, measuring the chamfered dummy wafer for its chamfered shape, and correcting the shape of the grindstone for chamfering based on the measured chamfered shape of the dummy wafer, at least before the chamfering step, thereby chamfering the wafer sliced from the ingot using the grindstone for chamfering having its shape corrected. Thus, it is possible to provide a wafer production method allowing a product wafer with a desired chamfered shape to be obtained in a short period of time.
|Method of improving nanotopography of surface of wafer and wire saw apparatus - The present invention provides a method of improving nanotopography of a surface of a wafer sliced from an ingot by using a wire saw apparatus, including improving straightness of feed of a work feed table which is included in the wire saw apparatus and used for feeding the ingot to a wire row formed by winding a wire around a plurality of rollers, and also provides a wire saw apparatus for slicing an ingot to manufacture a wafer, including: a wire row formed by winding a wire around a plurality of rollers; a work feed table for holding and feeding the ingot to the wire row; and a linear-motion guide for linearly guiding the work feed table, wherein a component having a wavelength of 20 to 200 mm in straightness of feed of the work feed table satisfies a PV value ≦1.0 μm. As a result, there are provided the method of eliminating slice waviness having periodicity to improve the nanotopography of the surface of the wafer and the wire saw apparatus.
|METHOD FOR CHAMFERING WAFER - In a conventional wafer chamfering process, the chamfered shape (cross-sectional shape) of the wafer circumference is uniform. However, in the chamfering step in wafer manufacture, the uniform chamfered shape varies with respective circumferential positions. Therefore, a wafer chamfering method that takes into account deformation in the chamfering step in the wafer manufacture is to be provided. The wafer chamfering method is for chamfering a wafer by bringing a grooveless grindstone into contact with the edge (circumferential end) of a wafer. By this wafer chamfering method, a movement trajectory formed by moving the wafer and the grindstone in a relative manner in the Z-axis and Y-axis directions and forming the same cross-sectional shape on the entire wafer circumference is set as a reference. So as to perform a processing operation in which the relative positions of the wafer and the grindstone are changed from positions on the reference trajectory at least in one of the Z-axis and Y-axis directions depending on wafer rotation angle positions, different cross-sectional shapes are formed depending on the wafer rotation angle positions with the use of a piezoelectric actuator.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Kato, Fukushima JP
Tadahiro Katsumoto, Yokohama-Shi JP
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|PACKAGE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a package from which a metal wiring and the like are difficult to be detached even when heat is generated from a semiconductor light-emitting element. This object is achieved with a package for a semiconductor light-emitting device comprising at least a molded resin containing (A) a SiH-containing polyorganosiloxane and (B) a filler, wherein an amount of SiH existing in the molded resin, after a heat treatment thereof at 200° C. for 10 minutes, is 20 to 65 μmol/g.
|LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting device which increases the emission efficiency of phosphor by reducing self-absorption of light by phosphor and by reducing absorption of fluorescent light by an encapsulating resin, and which increases the efficiency of light extraction from the phosphor layer by preventing light scattering caused by the phosphor.
|LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting device exhibiting a superior emission efficiency which enables easy adjustment of an emission spectrum.
|LIGHT EMISSION APPARATUS, ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND ILLUMINATION METHOD - A light emission apparatus includes: a wiring board; a plurality of LED chips that are disposed on an LED chip mounting surface of the wiring board and are grouped into a plurality of LED groups; a wavelength conversion member that is disposed at a position corresponding to the LED chip mounting surface of the wiring board, converts a wavelength of light emitted by the corresponding LED chips, and emits first-order light with a different color temperature for each wavelength conversion region; a current supply section that supplies a driving current to the LED chips independently for each LED group through the wiring board; and a control section that controls the current amount supplied for each LED group in response to a control signal. The control section independently controls timing of starting to light the LED groups in accordance with the light control level.
|NITRIDE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A nitride LED having improved light extraction efficiency and/or axial luminous intensity is provided. The nitride LED contains a nitride semiconductor substrate having, on a front face thereof, a light-emitting structure made of a nitride semiconductor, wherein a roughened region is provided on a back face of the substrate, the roughened region has a plurality of protrusions, each of the plurality of protrusions has a top point or top plane and has a horizontal cross-section which is circular, except in areas where the protrusion is tangent to other neighboring protrusions, and which has a surface area that decreases on approaching the top point or top plane, the plurality of protrusions are arranged such that any one protrusion is in contact with six other protrusions, and light generated in the light-emitting structure is output to the exterior through the roughened region.
Tadahiro Kegasawa, Shizuoka JP
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|Method and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plastic Optical Fiber - A preform (
Tadahiro Kimura, Tokyo JP
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|ELECTRON BEAM WELDING METHOD - An electron beam welding method capable of restoring toughness even when high heat input welding is performed. The electron beam welding method comprises: forming a first weld bead (
|POLISHING SLURRY FOR CMP AND POLISHING METHOD - A method including preparing a polishing slurry for CMP for polishing at least a conductor layer and a conductive substance layer in contact with the conductor layer, wherein the absolute value of the potential difference between the conductive substance and the conductor at 50±5° C. is 0.25 V or less in the polishing slurry when a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a potentiometer are connected to the conductive substance and the conductor, respectively. The polishing slurry for CMP preferably comprises at least one compound selected from heterocyclic compounds containing any one of hydroxyl group, carbonyl group, carboxyl group, amino group, amide group and sulfinyl group, and containing at least one of nitrogen and sulfur atoms.
Tadahiro Kimura, Hitachi-Shi JP
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|POLISHING SOLUTION FOR CMP AND POLISHING METHOD USING THE POLISHING SOLUTION - The polishing solution for CMP according to the invention comprises abrasive grains, an additive and water, and the polishing solution comprises an organic compound satisfying specified conditions as the additive. The polishing method of the invention is for polishing of a substrate having a silicon oxide film on the surface, and the polishing method comprises a step of polishing the silicon oxide film with a polishing pad while supplying the polishing solution for CMP between the silicon oxide film and the polishing pad.
|SLURRY, POLISHING FLUID SET, POLISHING FLUID, AND SUBSTRATE POLISHING METHOD USING SAME - The slurry of the invention comprises abrasive grains and water, wherein the abrasive grains include tetravalent cerium hydroxide particles and produce light transmittance of at least 50%/cm for light with a wavelength of 500 nm in an aqueous dispersion with the content of the abrasive grains adjusted to 1.0 mass %. The polishing liquid of the invention comprises abrasive grains, an additive and water, wherein the abrasive grains include tetravalent cerium hydroxide particles and produce light transmittance of at least 50%/cm for light with a wavelength of 500 nm in an aqueous dispersion with the content of the abrasive grains adjusted to 1.0 mass %.
Tadahiro Kitamura, Kariya-Shi JP
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|DRYER FOR AIR SUSPENSION FOR VEHICLE - A dryer for an air suspension for a vehicle, includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, a desiccant disposed between first and second filters within the housing, and a guide member including a shielding cylinder portion and a plate portion having plural communication holes, wherein the guide member is disposed between the inlet port and the first filter positioned closer to the inlet port, supports the first filter and the desiccant and guides a fluid to the desiccant, the shielding cylinder portion includes an opening and forms a flow passage for guiding the fluid, the fluid is guided to the desiccant from the inlet port via the shielding cylinder portion, and the flow passage and the communication holes, so that the fluid is dried by the desiccant and is then discharged from the dryer as a dry air to the air suspension for the vehicle.
|ELECTRIC PUMP - An electric pump includes a motor, a bracket including a support surface arranged to be perpendicular to a rotation shaft of the motor and a bush attachment bore provided to be perpendicular to the support surface, and a bush fitted to the bush attachment bore. The bush attachment bore includes a base portion formed in a shape similar to a portion of the bush fitted to the bush attachment bore, the bush attachment bore including an expansion portion integrally formed with the base portion and extending in a circumferential direction of the motor.
Tadahiro Kitamura, Fort Lee, NJ US
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|GENERATION OF PANCREATIC ENDOCRINE CELLS FROM PRIMARY DUCT CELL CULTURES AND METHODS OF USE FOR TREATMENT OF DIABETES - The invention is directed to spontaneously immortalized pancreatic duct cells and methods for generating pancreatic endocrine cells from spontaneously immortalized pancreatic duct cells that express the transcription factors Pdx1 and FoxO1. The invention also provides for methods for treating beta cell failure, the method comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of spontaneously immortalized pancreatic duct cells expressing a mutated version FoxO1.
Tadahiro Kiyosumi, Osaka JP
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|DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DEVELOPING DEVICE - A developing device includes a developing roller, a magnetic roller, a capacitor, a transformer, and a switching portion. The magnetic roller supplies toner to the developing roller or takes off the toner from the same. The capacitor is connected to a primary of the transformer, and the developing roller is connected to a secondary of the same. During a period while the voltage between electrodes of the capacitor is changing, the switching portion changes the duty ratio in a predetermined second time slot in which current flowing in the switching portion is smaller than that flowing in a first time slot.
Tadahiro Kiyosumi, Osaka-Shi JP
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|SHEET TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME - A sheet transport device comprises a sheet feeding path through which a sheet is transported, first and second elements which are located face to face with a particular point in the sheet feeding path and have first and second surfaces, respectively, constituting part of the sheet feeding path and arranged therealong, an interposed element disposed insertably into and withdrawably from a space formed between the first and second elements, and a discharge arrester disposed in first and second surfaces for providing protection against a discharge of static electricity from the sheet, the discharge arrester having a projecting part extending in a direction intersecting the sheet feeding path.
Tadahiro Koike, Nagoya-Shi JP
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|GUIDEWIRE - A guidewire includes a core shaft, and a coiled body wound around the outer circumferential surface of the core shaft. A bulged portion is provided at the tip portion of the core shaft. The front end of the coiled body is bonded to the front end of the core shaft with a bonding portion. The bonding portion is provided to enclose the bulged portion provided at the tip portion of the core shaft.
|GUIDEWIRE - A guidewire includes a core shaft, a coil body that covers the core shaft, and a joining portion formed of metal solder that couples the core shaft and the coil body. The coil body includes a tungsten wire and a noble metal plating layer that covers at least a portion of a surface of the tungsten wire. A surface of the noble metal plating layer has a first uneven shape, including at least one recess and at least one protrusion.
Tadahiro Koike, Aichi-Ken JP
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|Medical guide wire - A medical guide wire
Tadahiro Kojima, Tokyo-To JP
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|SEALABLE CAP FOR SPOUT - A device for closing a spout of a flexible container is provided. The device includes a connection tube and a sealable cap having an outer casing member with a lower, outer circumferential surface, an attachment member annularly positioned on a portion of the lower, outer circumferential surface, and an inner casing member having an inner casing sidewall and a bottom disc-shaped occlusion plate defining a cylindrical void space configured to receive a connection tube. The plate can be integrally connected to the inner casing sidewall via a thin-wall section sized to break by the insertion of an insertion edge of the connection tube. The device can also include an overcap sized to mate to the sealable cap.
Tadahiro Kondo, Ichihara-Shi JP
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|RECORDING MATERIAL USING PHENOLIC COMPOUND - An object of the present invention is to provide a recording material or a recording sheet that is excellent in background and image stabilities and further excellent in color-developing sensitivity. The recording material of the present invention contains a color-forming compound, an additive, and at least one compound represented by formula (I) [wherein R
|PHENOLIC COMPOUND AND RECORDING MATERIAL - An object of the present invention is to provide a recording material that is excellent in color-developing properties and background and image stabilities, and a compound used therein. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I) [wherein R
|RECORDING MATERIAL USING PHENOL COMPOUND - An object of the present invention is to provide a recording material or a recording sheet that is excellent not only in whiteness of a background but also in storage property for a background and an image, and further has excellent dynamic sensitivity. In order to achieve the object, a phenol compound represented by Formula (I) [wherein R
Tadahiro Kondo, Sagamihara-Shi JP
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|PRESS LOAD CONTROLLING APPARATUS FOR MECHANICAL PRESS - In a mechanical press, the pressure (cylinder force) of a hydraulic pressure chamber of a cylinder-piston mechanism provided in a slide of the mechanical press can be variably controlled with a high responsiveness by a hydraulic pump/motor driven by an electric servomotor, in response to a cylinder force command corresponding to the press load command. Accordingly, even if a die height value is set to a value small enough to cause an overload, the press load can be restricted before the occurrence of the overload, and this can save the trouble of strictly adjusting the die height value. Further, pressure-application time in the vicinity of a bottom dead center can be lengthened, and a breakthrough phenomenon can be suppressed from occurring at the end of pressure application. Still further, because the overload does not occur, pressure oil is not relieved, so that the interruption of a press operation is avoided.
|DIE CUSHION APPARATUS OF PRESS MACHINE AND DIE CUSHION CONTROLLING METHOD - According to the die cushion apparatus of a press machine and the die cushion controlling method of the present invention, in holding the cushion pad on standby at a desired standby position, it is possible to hold the cushion pad on standby in parallel with the lower faces of the dies mounted to the slide, and if the lower faces of the dies are inclined, it is possible to hold the cushion pad on standby in the state of being inclined. Through this configuration, it is possible to easily allow the material to come into contact with the lower faces of the dies from the beginning of the die cushion force control (beginning of the collision), and also possible to smoothen the die cushion action in the plane, thereby enhancing the formability.
|PRESS MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SLIDE OF PRESS MACHINE - There is provided a press machine which can apply a large compression force to a mold as well as impart smooth vibration only in a rectilinear advancing direction to the mold, and thereby can improve the press-formability. A main slide and a sub-slide constitute a slide and at the same time a cylinder-piston mechanism. During press-forming, a compression force is transmitted to the sub-slide (an upper mold) through hydraulic pressure applied interlockingly with driving of the main slide, and the sub-slide is vibrated with the hydraulic pressure being periodically changed. Favorable press-forming can be performed even under relatively difficult press-forming conditions, by controlling the vibration such that a vibration frequency of the sub-slide (the upper mold) becomes 9 Hz or higher but 33.3 Hz or lower and a vibration amplitude of the sub-slide becomes 0.05 mm or larger but 0.5 mm or smaller.
Tadahiro Kubota, Wako JP
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|METHOD FOR FORMING AN ABSORBER LAYER OF A THIN FILM SOLAR CELL - In a method for forming a light absorber layer (
Tadahiro Kubota, Wako-Shi JP
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|Fuel cell assembly, separator-diffusion layer assembly for fuel cell assembly and manufacturing method therefor - In a fuel cell assembly (
|FUEL CELL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR BONDING A SEPARATOR AND AN ELECTROLYTE LAYER OF A FUEL CELL ASSEMBLY - In a fuel cell assembly (
Tadahiro Kubota, Asaka-Shi JP
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|Fuel cell assembly and a separator therefor - In a fuel cell assembly (
Patent applications by Tadahiro Kubota, Asaka-Shi JP
Tadahiro Kugimaru, Osaka JP
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|THIN DISPLAY DEVICE - A thin flat display includes a display unit and an outer casing accommodating the display unit. Upper corner regions and lower corner regions of the outer casing are held by upper corner shock-absorbing members and lower corner shock-absorbing members disposed separately at upper corners and lower corners of a packing box when the flat display device is accommodated in the packing box. The outer casing includes a front cabinet disposed on a side of a display surface of the display unit and a back cabinet covering a rear surface of the display unit. The back cabinet is attached to the front cabinet by screw fastening portions at a peripheral portion of the back cabinet. In the upper and lower corner regions of the outer casing, the screw fastening portions of the back cabinet are positioned within regions held by the shock-absorbing members. Damages caused by a mechanical impact suffered during transportation can be prevented.
|THIN DISPLAY DEVICE - A thin display device includes a display unit and an outer casing accommodating a device component constituting a display unit together with the display unit. Upper corner regions and lower corner regions of the outer casing are held by upper corner shock-absorbing members and lower corner shock-absorbing members disposed separately at upper corners and lower corners of a packing box when the thin display device is accommodated in the packing box. The device component is accommodated in a peripheral portion in the outer casing. A center of gravity of the device component is positioned within a region of the outer casing where the upper corner shock-absorbing member holds the outer casing and a region of the outer casing where the lower shock-absorbing member holds the outer casing.
Tadahiro Matori, Wako JP
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|CAR SEAT - A car seat includes a seat back and a back belt. The seat back is foldable from an erect position into a substantially horizontal folded position. The back belt is disposed in a position in which the back belt, when extending along the seat back, is able to restrain an item or a baby being placed on a back surface of the seat back in the folded position.
Tadahiro Matori, Saitama JP
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|Structure for mounting camera on vehicle - According to one embodiment, there is provided a structure for mounting a camera on a vehicle, including: a base fixed to a vehicle body; a camera; a slide mechanism configured to allow the camera to slide in a sliding direction so as to be detachably engaged with the base; and a spring member configured to generate a pressing force in a direction perpendicular to the sliding direction between the base and the camera in an engaged state, thereby holding the camera with respect to the base.
|Structure for mounting camera on vehicle - One embodiment of the present invention provides a structure for mounting a camera on a vehicle, the structure including: a base unit fixed to a vehicle body; a camera; a slide mechanism configured to allow the camera to slide in an attaching direction so as to be detachably engaged with the base unit; protrusions provided on one of the base unit and the camera, the protrusions being disposed at front left and right sides and rear left and right sides with respect to the attaching direction; and contact portions provided on the other of the base unit and the camera, the contact portions laterally contacting the front left and right protrusions and the rear left and right protrusions, respectively, thereby positioning the camera with respect to the base unit.
|VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA - The vehicle-mounted camera (
Tadahiro Matsumoto, Fujisawa-Shi JP
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|DEFROSTER NOZZLE - Provided is a defroster nozzle
Tadahiro Matsushima, Shikokuchuo-Shi JP
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|Process for Producing Coated Paper and Coated Paper - A process for forming coating layers on a surface of a base paper, using coating apparatuses differing in coating method in which at least two coating layers are formed on the surface layer of the base paper, and in particular, the base paper is coated by a combination of coating by a roll coater and coating by a blade coater.
Tadahiro Miichi, Nishinomiya-City JP
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|Information display apparatus - An information display apparatus comprises a plurality of sensing devices, a signal processing block, an information display block, a menu storage block, a rotary control like a rotary encoder and a menu display block. The information display apparatus presents selectable menu items relating to images displayed on-screen together with information on hierarchical level of the menu items so that a user can easily recognize the hierarchical level of the currently presented menu items. The rotary control permits the user to select a desired one of the presented menu items by simple operation.
Tadahiro Mita, Tokyo JP
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|COMPRESSION MOLDING APPARATUS AND MOLDING DIE - Disclosed are a compression molding apparatus and a molding die, whereby efficient hot-molding is performed. The compression molding apparatus performs a molding by providing a raw material into the molding die, and applying heat and pressure to the material. The apparatus is provided with: a first molding die, which forms a molding frame that surrounds a region where the raw material is compression-molded; a second molding die, which compresses the raw material provided into the molding frame; and a heat source section, which supports and heats the second molding die. The second molding die has: a first heat pipe, which has one end positioned on the heat source section side, and the other end positioned on the side of a pressing surface that presses the raw material; and a heat insulating layer, which wraps the first heat pipe along the longitudinal direction of the first heat pipe.
Tadahiro Miwatashi, Kanagawa JP
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|METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A high withstand voltage transistor is formed in a high withstand voltage region, and a low withstand voltage transistor is formed in a low withstand voltage region in a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a thermal oxide film and a silicon nitride film over the surface of a silicon substrate; forming an opening to the thermal oxide film and the silicon nitride film in each of the high withstand voltage region and the low withstand voltage region; etching the silicon substrate to form trenches; burying a buried oxide film in each of the trenches; removing the thermal oxide film and the silicon nitride film; and forming a thick gate oxide film and a thin oxide film. The depth of a tapered portion of the trench in the low withstand voltage region is shallower than that in the high withstand voltage region.
Tadahiro Mizutani, Shioriji JP
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|ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - An electronic instrument is adapted to communicate with another electronic instrument. The electronic instrument includes an acquisition section, a storage section, an inquiry section and a processing section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire identification information from a managed article used by the electronic instrument, the identification information being read-only information uniquely assigned to the managed article. The storage section is configured to store the identification information acquired by the acquisition section. The inquiry section is configured to inquire another electronic instrument as to whether the identification information acquired by the acquisition section is already stored in another electronic instrument. The processing section is configured to perform processing in response to a result of inquiry by the inquiry section.
Tadahiro Mizutani, Shiojiri-Shi JP
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|Liquid Contanier - A liquid container for supplying a liquid to a liquid jetting apparatus includes a liquid reservoir section and a sensor. The liquid reservoir section stores electrically conductive liquid. The sensor is disposed at a location in the liquid reservoir section, for electrically detecting a condition of the conductive liquid at the location. A fixed potential is applied to the conductive liquid.
|Liquid Container - A liquid container is for supplying a liquid to a liquid jetting apparatus. The liquid container includes a liquid reservoir section, a sensor and an electrostatic capacitance. The liquid reservoir section stores electrically conductive liquid. The sensor is disposed at a location in the liquid reservoir section, for electrically detecting a condition of the conductive liquid at the location. The electrostatic capacitance is provided between a fixed potential and the conductive liquid, the electrostatic capacitance reducing extrinsic noise.
|LIQUID CONTAINER AND DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE - Provided is a differential pressure regulating valve having a first chamber, a second chamber, a communication flow path, and a movable membrane. The first chamber has a first inflow port for receiving the fluid flowed into the differential pressure regulating valve, and a first outflow port. The second chamber has a second inflow port and a second outflow port for transmitting the fluid. The communication flow path links the first outflow port and the second inflow port. The movable membrane is provided between the first chamber and the second chamber. Also, the movable membrane is able to open and close the first outflow port by deforming according to the difference (differential pressure) between the first pressure of the first chamber and the second pressure of the second chamber.
|LIQUID CONTAINER AND MEMBRANE VALVE - A membrane valve having a membrane portion is used. The membrane valve can be formed using an elastomer. Also, the membrane valve can include N (N is an integer of 2 or greater) engaging portions that engage with the membrane support portion. Also, the membrane portion can also be affixed at a position closer to the first seal surface than the second seal surface in the seal portion. Here, the contact area of the first seal surface and the first member can be larger than the contact surface of the second seal surface and the second member. Also, in a first case where the end of the projecting portion is faced to a first plane and the membrane valve placed on the first plane, the end of the first support portion contacts the first plane and supports the membrane valve, and the end of the projecting portion can contact the first plane in a state with the membrane portion not deformed. Also, the projecting portion inserted inside the end of the coil spring can be arranged at the center axis side separated from the range of the position in which the projecting portion can contact the end of the coil spring by motion of the coil spring within the concave portion in the direction perpendicular to the center axis of the coil spring.
|Image Forming Apparatus - Provided is an image forming apparatus which includes a cylindrical image carrier, on which at least an electrostatic latent image is formed, and a charge roller for non-contact charging the image carrier with a predetermined charge gap, and applies at least an alternating current (AC) voltage to the charge roller to non-contact charge the image carrier, wherein a predetermined number of partition members for partitioning an internal space of the image carrier into a plurality of sub-spaces are arranged at a central position of an axial direction of the image carrier or in the vicinity of the central position of the axial direction of the image carrier, in the image carrier.
|LIQUID CONTAINER AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid container containing a liquid which is to be supplied to a liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a containing portion containing the liquid and including a liquid out-flowing hole for out-flowing the liquid to an external portion and an air introducing hole for introducing external air into the containing portion, and a deforming portion being deformed in such a direction that a volume of the containing portion is reduced according to a decrease in an internal pressure of the containing portion; wherein the air introducing portion includes: a first sealing portion disposed in a circumference of the air introducing hole inside the containing portion; a second sealing portion displaceably disposed inside the containing portion and capable of closing the air introducing hole by pressing the first sealing portion outwards; and a biasing portion pressing the second sealing portion toward the first sealing portion.
|LIQUID CONTAINER AND LIQUID-CONSUMING DEVICE - A liquid container including a liquid chamber formed to have a flexible member as its one part enables highly accurate detection of the remaining volume of a liquid contained in the liquid chamber. An ink cartridge
|LIQUID CONTAINER AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid container which contains liquid to be supplied to a liquid ejecting apparatus, includes: a containing section which contains liquid and includes a liquid delivery section, an air introduction section, and a deformation section, wherein the deformation section includes a rigid body section and a flexible section, the liquid container further includes a stop section which at least blocks the displacement equal to or greater than a predetermined amount with respect to a portion of the rigid body section, and in displacement of the rigid body section accompanying a reduction in the pressure, in the displacement of the rigid body section accompanying a reduction in the pressure, the air introduction section introduces the air into the containing section by transmission of displacement of the other portion of the rigid body section, the displacement of the portion of which has been blocked.
|PRINTING MATERIAL CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A printing apparatus has a cartridge attachment section including a terminal block having apparatus-side terminals disposed on its inclined surface, and a printing material supply pipe. Among the apparatus-side terminals, one apparatus-side ground terminal located on their center in Y direction is protruded to a greater height than the other plural apparatus-side terminals. A printing material cartridge has a circuit board, a printing material supply port, and a board mount portion that is inclined at an acute angle relative to a plane extended from an opening face of the printing material supply port. The circuit board is arranged such that one cartridge-side terminal on the circuit board comes into contact with the apparatus-side ground terminal prior to the other cartridge-side terminals in the process of attachment of the printing material cartridge to the cartridge attachment section. This arrangement enables the printing material cartridge to be attached in an adequate correct orientation or alignment to the printing apparatus. This arrangement also reduces the possibility of failure caused by application of a high voltage to the circuitry of the printing material cartridge.
|HOLDER, LIQUID ACCOMMODATION CONTAINER THAT IS ATTACHABLE TO AND DETACHABLE FROM HOLDER, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a holder to which a liquid accommodation container can be attached or detached. The holder includes an apparatus side engagement portion, and an opposite wall surface portion. The opposite wall surface portion has a hole portion for inserting a protrusion portion provided in the back surface portion, and a guide groove for guiding the protrusion portion to the hole portion while restricting the movement of the protrusion portion relative to the width direction of the liquid accommodation container when the liquid accommodation container is mounted, the guide groove being extended upward from the hole portion in a usage posture of the holder.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A cartridge comprises an ink supply structure, a terminal bearing structure, and a first restriction portion. The terminal bearing structure has terminals arranged in a terminal plane which is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a plane defined by a mounting direction leading edge of the ink supply structure, so that the contact portions of the terminals receive a force in a direction opposite (RD) from the mounting direction. An engagement portion of the first restriction portion is provided at a position adjacent to the terminal bearing structure.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A printing material supply system includes a printing device and a cartridge. The printing device has a cartridge mounting structure. The cartridge is removably attached to the cartridge mounting structure. The cartridge mounting structure has a device-side terminal, a lever, a first device-side locking element and a second device-side locking element. The first device-side locking element is configured as part of the lever to lock the cartridge at a position on a positive Z-axis side and on a positive X-axis side of the device-side terminal. The second device-side locking element is configured to lock the cartridge at a position on a positive Z-axis side and on a negative X-axis side of the printing material supply tube.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A printing material supply system includes a printing device and a cartridge. The printing device has a cartridge mounting structure. The cartridge is removably attached to the cartridge mounting structure. The cartridge mounting structure has a device-side terminal, a lever, a first device-side locking element and a second device-side locking element. The device-side terminal is configured to contact with a cartridge-side terminal. The first device-side locking element is configured as part of the lever. The second device-side locking element is configured to engage with a second locking surface of a second cartridge-side locking element. The cartridge-side terminal has a cartridge-side contact portion configured to be in contact with the device-side terminal. The cartridge-side contact portion is provided on the negative Z-axis side of the second locking surface.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A cartridge comprises an ink supply structure, a terminal bearing structure, and a first restriction portion. The terminal bearing structure has terminals arranged in a terminal plane which is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a plane defined by a mounting direction leading edge of the ink supply structure, so that the contact portions of the terminals receive a force in a direction opposite from the mounting direction. An engagement portion of the first restriction portion is provided at a position adjacent to the terminal bearing structure.
|PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A printing apparatus adapted to have a cartridge detachably mounted thereon includes a cartridge mounting structure, a printing material supply tube, a plurality of apparatus-side terminals and a lever used for attachment and detachment of the cartridge to and from the printing apparatus. The lever has an operating member, a first apparatus-side locking portion and an axis of rotation. When an external force is applied to the operating member of the lever from the +X-axis direction to the −X-axis direction, the lever moves the first apparatus-side locking portion about the axis of rotation from a specified locking position toward the +X-axis direction and disengages the first apparatus-side locking portion from a first cartridge-side restriction portion, so as to eliminate the restriction of motion of the cartridge. This ensures stable electrical connection between cartridge-side terminals and apparatus-side terminals.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A printing material supply system
|COVER AND LIQUID CONTAINER - A cover for a liquid container. The liquid container comprises a first to third surfaces. The first surface has a wall which surrounds a communication port and a liquid supply portion. The third surface has an air hole communicating with the communication port and has at least one of a protrusion and a recess. The cover comprises a covering portion that covers the wall, and a first cover portion that covers the at least one of the protrusion and the recess.
|CARTRIDGE AND SEALING MEMBER - A cartridge or a sealing member is provided to reduce the likelihood that a fluid is leaked outside. The cartridge is configured to supply a fluid to a fluid ejection apparatus. The cartridge has: a fluid accommodation portion; and a fluid supply port connectable with the fluid ejection apparatus. The fluid supply port includes: a fluid exit provided to flow out the fluid to the fluid ejection apparatus; and an opening arranged to connect outside of the fluid supply port with inside of the fluid supply port. The opening is not in contact with a side face of the fluid supply port.
|COVER AND LIQUID CONTAINER - A cover for a liquid container which exposes at least a portion of a detecting member, having a liquid supply portion to a liquid ejecting apparatus through communicating with the liquid containing unit, and a first surface provided with a first container side engagement portion arranged between the liquid supply portion and the detecting member. The cover includes a first cover side engagement portion engaging with the first container side engagement portion.
|LIQUID ACCOMMODATION BODY AND ACCOMMODATION BODY UNIT - A liquid container includes an container main body provided with a liquid accommodation portion for accommodating a liquid in an inner portion and a liquid supply portion which communicates with the liquid accommodation portion and has an opening for causing the liquid of the liquid accommodation portion to flow to the outside; a cap member which is mounted on the container main body in a detachable manner so as to seal the opening of the liquid supply portion and, together with the liquid supply portion, forms an inner chamber by partitioning; and a first communication path which communicates the inner chamber with the outside.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A cartridge comprises an ink supply structure, a terminal bearing structure, and a first restriction portion. The terminal bearing structure has terminals arranged in a terminal plane which is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a plane defined by a mounting direction leading edge of the ink supply structure, so that the contact portions of the terminals receive a force in a direction opposite (RD) from the mounting direction. An engagement portion of the first restriction portion is provided at a position adjacent to the terminal bearing structure.
|CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A cartridge comprises an ink supply structure, a terminal bearing structure, and a first restriction portion. The terminal bearing structure has terminals arranged in a terminal plane which is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a plane defined by a mounting direction leading edge of the ink supply structure, so that the contact portions of the terminals receive a force in a direction opposite from the mounting direction. An engagement portion of the first restriction portion is provided at a position adjacent to the terminal bearing structure.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Mizutani, Shiojiri-Shi JP
Tadahiro Mizutani, Nagano-Ken JP
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|Charging Roller and Image Forming Apparatus - A charging roller, adapted to face an image carrier at a predetermined charging gap and charge the image carrier in a non-contact state, including: a conductive shaft, provided with a pair of annular concave portions formed on an outer circumferential surface at both ends thereof; a conductive layer, formed on the outer circumference surface at a center portion of the conductive shaft defined between the pair of concave portions; and an insulating layer, formed on the outer circumferential surface at outer portions of the conductive shaft from the pair of annular concave portions.
Tadahiro Mizutani, Nagano JP
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|CARTRIDGE - A cartridge is adapted to be detachably mounted to a carriage in a printing device with a first surface as a lower side, where, when a distance between the first surface and a second surface is set as a height H and a distance between a third surface and a fourth surface is set as a depth D, the height H is ¼ or more and ⅖ or less of the depth D.
Tadahiro Naito, Daito-Shi JP
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|Display - A display is formed such that a control portion reads second channel data corresponding to channels not displayed at start-up from a second storage portion after reading first channel data corresponding to a prescribed channel displayed on a display portion at the start-up from a first storage portion, at the start-up.
|Display and Television - This display includes a detection portion detecting a signal from an external apparatus connected to an external input connection portion, a display portion selectably displaying an input mode corresponding to the external input connection portion and a control portion controlling the display portion to display an image on the basis of a signal of the external input connection portion corresponding to the selected input mode. The display selectably displays a first input mode corresponding to the external input connection portion from which a signal is detected by the detection portion, and selectably displays a second input mode corresponding to at least an external input connection portion from which no signal is detected by the detection portion when the first input mode is not selected.
|Television Set - This television set includes a first speaker portion and a second speaker portion provided on prescribed left and right positions of a display screen portion respectively, a driving portion turning the display screen portion and a control portion controlling the first speaker portion and the second speaker portion so that the first speaker portion and the second speaker portion output different sounds enabling the user to identify the distances from the first and second speaker portions to the user respectively when the driving portion turns the display screen portion.
|Display - This display includes a display portion, a receiving sensitivity detection portion and a control portion so formed as to control the display portion to display an image received from a channel and displayable on the display portion while displaying a set screen enabling the user to select whether or not to display the image currently displayed on the display portion on the basis of receiving sensitivity.
|Receiver - This receiver includes a first storage portion storing program data allowing the user to watch a television broadcast, a second storage portion storing an operating history of a receiver body including at least a television program watch history, and a control portion updating the program data on the basis of the operating history stored in the second storage portion.
Tadahiro Nakagawa, Nagoya-City JP
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Tadahiro Nakagawa, Nisshin-City JP
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|CHEMICAL HEAT ACCUMULATOR - A chemical heat accumulator includes a receptacle, a first reaction vessel, and a second reaction vessel. The first reaction vessel is hermetically connected to the receptacle and supplied with water from the receptacle. The first reaction vessel contains a chemical compound that causes a hydration reaction with the water from the receptacle to generate water vapor by a heat of reaction, and causes a dehydration reaction by receiving heat. The second reaction vessel is hermetically connected to the first reaction vessel and supplied with the water vapor from the first reaction vessel. The second reaction vessel contains a chemical heat storage material that generates heat by causing a hydration reaction with the water vapor from the first reaction vessel and stores heat through a dehydration reaction caused by receiving heat. The chemical heat storage material is thermally in contact with an object to be heated.
|FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A fuel supply system includes an energy output device, a reformer and a cooling unit. The energy output device consumes fuel, which is a compound including hydrogen, and outputs energy. The reformer decomposes fuel so as to generate hydrogen which is to be supplied to the energy output device. The cooling unit cools the hydrogen generated in the reformer.
Tadahiro Nakamura, Kanagawa JP
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|DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus that enables a client to identify services which can be provided under a current status of the data processing apparatus by reflecting dynamically changing status information, such as equipment information, in a WSDL file. An equipment information acquisition device
Tadahiro Nakayama, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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|MEASURING SYSTEM USING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE, MEASURING DEVICE, MEASURING METHOD, OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE TYPE SENSOR CHIP, AND MAGNETIC FINE PARTICLE - According to one embodiment, a measuring system using an optical waveguide is provided. The measuring system has an optical waveguide, magnetic fine particles, a magnetic field applying unit, a light source and a light receiving element. The optical waveguide has a sensing area to which first substances having a property of specifically bonding to subject substances to be measured are fixed. Second substances having a property of specifically bonding to the subject substances are fixed to the magnetic fine particle. The magnetic field applying unit generates a magnetic field for moving the magnetic fine particles. The light source inputs a light into the optical waveguide. The light receiving element receives the light output from the optical waveguide.
Tadahiro Otsuka, Nagoya-Shi JP
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|NUMERICAL CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A preceding-check processing sequence is provided separately from a machine-control processing sequence for an actual machine control, to make it possible to perform a collision check at an accurate position from an operation restart time of a machining program even when an operator interrupts an operation in the middle of the machining program or when the operator interrupts the operation as having detected a collision. This preceding-check processing sequence performs a collision possibility check ahead of an actual machine control. In this arrangement, there is provided a control-state synchronizing unit that matches a state of the preceding-check processing sequence with a state of the machine-control processing sequence during a period from when a machine stops until when the machine restarts an operation.
Tadahiro Sasaki, Tokyo JP
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|POWER AMPLIFIER AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - A power amplifier includes: a first multi-finger FET formed on a semiconductor substrate; a second multi-finger FET formed on the semiconductor substrate; a first temperature detector which detects a channel temperature of the first FET; a second temperature detector which detects a channel temperature of the second FET; a third temperature detector which detects a temperature of the semiconductor substrate; a first detection circuit detecting a difference between an output of the first temperature detector and an output of the third temperature detector and converting the difference to thermoelectromotive force; a second detection circuit detecting a difference between an output of the second temperature detector and the output of the third temperature detector and converting the difference to thermoelectromotive force; and a comparator comparing outputs of the first and second detection circuits with each other to turn on one of the first and second switches and turn off the other.
|HIGH FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER AND WIRELESS PORTABLE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - An object is to provide a high frequency power amplifier in which lowering of output power during operation is prevented, influence of thermal noise is suppressed, high frequency operation is stable, and long-term reliability is ensured. The high frequency power amplifier includes a plurality of transistors having gate electrodes, source regions and drain regions, the gate electrodes, source regions and drain regions being respectively connected in common, and a plurality of acoustic reflection layers being buried in portions of the semiconductor substrate, the portions being located between adjacent transistors, the acoustic reflection layers being disposed in a direction which is oblique to a length direction of the gate electrode.
|SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an element region having a polygonal shape defined by a plurality of edges, and an isolation region surrounding the element region, and a plurality of gate electrodes provided on the substrate, crossing the element region, arranged in parallel with each other, and electrically connected with each other, wherein at least one of the edges does not cross any of the gate electrodes, and is not parallel to the gate electrodes.
|SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a first transistor unit including first field effect transistors with first gate electrodes electrically connected together, first sources electrically connected together, and first drains electrically connected together, the first gate electrodes being electrically connected to the first drains, a second transistor unit including second field effect transistors with second gate electrodes electrically connected together, second sources electrically connected together, and second drains electrically connected together, the second gate electrodes being electrically connected to the first gate electrodes, and dummy gate electrodes electrically isolated from the first gate electrodes and the second gate electrodes. The first gate electrodes, the second gate electrodes, and the dummy gate electrodes are arranged parallel to one another, and at least one dummy gate electrode is located between any one of the first gate electrodes and any one of the second gate electrodes.
|SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a semiconductor device that is easily integrated with other electronic circuits and functions as an oscillator with high frequency accuracy. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; an element region; an element isolation region that surrounds the element region; a field effect transistor including a gate electrode that is formed on the element region, source and drain regions, and a channel region that is interposed between the source region and the drain region; gate, source, and drain terminals that are used to apply a voltage to the gate electrode, the source region, and the drain region, respectively; and an output terminal that is electrically connected to the channel region. When the threshold voltage of the field effect transistor is V
|POWER AMPLIFIER - According to an embodiment, a power amplifier is provided with at least one first growth ring gate structure and multiple second growth ring gate structures. The first growth ring gate structure is bounded by a semiconductor layer and performs a power amplification operation. The multiple second growth ring gate structures are bounded by the semiconductor layer and are arranged adjacently around the first growth ring gate structure in a surrounding manner. When the first growth ring gate structure performs a power amplification operation, the multiple second growth ring gate structures are depleted by applying a reverse bias to the multiple second growth ring gate structures whereby the depleted multiple second growth ring gate structures isolate the first growth ring gate structure from a surrounding portion.
|POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier according to the embodiments includes: a silicon substrate; an input terminal configured to receive an input of a RF signal; a power dividing unit configured to divide the RF signal into a first signal and a second signal; a phase modulating unit configured to modulate a phase of the second signal; an N well formed in the silicon substrate; a P well formed in the N well and configured to receive an input of the second signal of a modulated phase; a gate insulating film formed on the P well; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film and configured to receive an input of the first signal; source and drain electrodes formed on both sides of the gate electrode in the silicon substrate; and an output terminal configured to output a RF signal obtained from the drain electrode.
|SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - One embodiment of a semiconductor device provided with a semiconductor substrate, a device region formed on the semiconductor substrate, a device isolation region, which encloses the device region, a plurality of first gate electrodes arranged so as to be parallel to each other on the device region and electrically connected to each other, and a plurality of second gate electrodes arranged so as to be parallel to a plurality of first gate electrodes on the device region and electrically connected to each other, wherein the first gate electrode is arranged so as to be interposed between the second gate electrodes, a gate width of the first gate electrode is smaller than the gate width of the second gate electrode, and a DC bias voltage higher than that of the second gate electrode is applied to the first gate electrode.
|ACOUSTIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an acoustic semiconductor device includes an element unit, and a first terminal. The element unit includes an acoustic resonance unit. The acoustic resonance unit includes a semiconductor crystal. An acoustic standing wave is excitable in the acoustic resonance unit and is configured to be synchronously coupled with electric charge density within at least one portion of the semiconductor crystal via deformation-potential coupling effect. The first terminal is electrically connected to the element unit. At least one selected from outputting and inputting an electrical signal is implementable via the first terminal. The electrical signal is coupled with the electric charge density. The outputting the electrical signal is from the acoustic resonance unit, and the inputting the electrical signal is into the acoustic resonance unit.
|EBG STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - An EBG structure according to an embodiment includes an electrode unit made of a first conductor and provided with a space, a patch unit provided approximately parallel to the electrode unit and made of a second conductor, an insulating layer provided between the electrode unit and the patch unit, a first via provided between the patch unit and the electrode unit in the insulating layer and connected to the patch unit and the electrode unit, and a second via provided between the patch unit and the space in the insulating layer, connected to the patch unit, and not connected to the electrode unit.
|EBG STRUCTURE AND CIRCUIT BOARD - An EBG (Electromagnetic Band Gap) structure according to an embodiment includes: an electrode that is made of a first conductor; a first insulating layer that is provided on the electrode; a patch unit that is provided in substantially parallel with the electrode on the first insulating layer, the patch unit including a first gap, the patch unit being made of a second conductor; a second insulating layer that is provided on the patch unit; a first via that is provided between the patch unit in the first insulating layer and the electrode and connected to the patch unit and the electrode; and a second via that is provided in the first and second insulating layers, the second via piercing the first gap and being connected to the electrode.
|ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT - A circuit board according to an embodiment is one in which a plurality of electronic components is mounted on a printed wiring board. The circuit board includes a semiconductor component that is mounted on the printed wiring board, and the semiconductor component includes a semiconductor device and a first EBG structure formed on or above the semiconductor device. An operating frequency of the semiconductor device exists outside a cutoff band of the first EBG structure, and the first EBG structure is connected to a ground or a power supply of the printed wiring board.
|SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor package of an embodiment includes: a semiconductor chip having a signal input terminal and a signal output terminal; and a cap unit that is formed on the semiconductor chip. The cap unit includes a concave portion forming a hollow structure between the semiconductor chip and the cap unit, a first through electrode electrically connected to the signal input terminal, and a second through electrode electrically connected to the signal output terminal. Of the inner side surfaces of the concave portion, a first inner side surface and a second inner side surface facing each other are not parallel to each other.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Sasaki, Tokyo JP
Tadahiro Sato, Akita JP
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|METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SILICA GLASS CRUCIBLE FOR PULLING SILICON SINGLE CRYSTALS - The disclosed is a method of manufacturing a silica glass crucible for pulling silicon single crystals. In the method, reduced pressure is imparted from the inner surface to the outer surface of a crucible-shaped molded product and the crucible-shaped molded product is arc-fused while rotating the same to form a silica glass crucible with a transparent layer on the inner surface side and a bubble layer on the outer surface side. The inner surface of the wall portion of the silica glass crucible is fused a second time by arc fusion to cause bubbles present in the transparent layer of the inner surface of the wall portion to be displaced toward the bottom portion of the inner surface of the wall portion. The inner surface of the bottom portion of the silica glass crucible is fuse a second time by arc fusion to cause bubbles present in the transparent layer of the inner surface of the bottom portion to be displaced toward the periphery of the inner surface of the bottom portion. Either the step of displacement toward the bottom portion or the step of displacement toward the outer periphery is inverted first.
|SILICA CRUCIBLE FOR PULLING SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - There is provided a silica crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal, comprising silica glass and having a two-layer structure of an outer layer and an inner layer, wherein the inner layer, in a sectional side view of the crucible, has a wavy inner surface shape having mountain parts and valley parts at least between a start position and an end position for the pulling of a silicon single crystal in a silicon melt surface, and when a distance from an upper opening end of the crucible to the start position for the pulling of the silicon single crystal is 100, only a crucible portion from the upper opening end to a position within a range of 40 to 100 is crystalline.
|VITREOUS SILICA CRUCIBLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided are a vitreous silica crucible which enables, during pulling, crystallization promotion of the inner surface and retention of the crucible strength, and a method of manufacturing the same. The vitreous silica crucible
|VITREOUS SILICA CRUCIBLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a vitreous silica crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal, having an inner surface layer which is excellent in uniformity and has a low bubble content rate, and a method of manufacturing the same. Provided is a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal comprising the step of forming an inner surface layer
Tadahiro Satou, Akita-Shi JP
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|HIGH-PURITY VITREOUS SILICA CRUCIBLE USED FOR PULLING LARGE-DIAMETER SINGLE-CRYSTAL SILICON INGOT - A high-purity vitreous silica crucible which has high strength and is used for pulling a large-diameter single-crystal silicon ingot, includes a double laminated structure constituted by an outer layer composed of amorphous silica glass with a bubble content of 1 to 10% and a purity of 99.99% or higher and an inner layer composed of amorphous silica glass with a bubble content of 0.6% or less and a purity of 99.99% or higher, and in the portion between the upper opening end of the high-purity vitreous silica crucible and the ingot-pulling start line of a silicon melt surface in the step of pulling a single-crystal silicon ingot, a portion corresponding to 40 to 100 volume % from the upper opening end of the crucible is in a crystalline structure free from the crystallization promoter.
Tadahiro Shimozono, Bankok TH
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|SQUIRREL-CAGE INDUCTION MOTOR - An object of the present invention is to provide a squirrel-cage induction motor with high efficiency. In a squirrel-cage induction motor including a stator in which stator windings are wound in a number of stator slots arranged at intervals in the vicinity of the inner periphery of a stator core and a rotor in which rotor conductors are embedded in a number of rotor slots arranged at intervals in the vicinity of the outer periphery of a rotor core and end rings are provided at both ends of the rotor core, the rotor core is formed of a plurality of blocks, an annular short-circuit ring is provided between respective blocks of the rotor core to short-circuit the rotor conductors, and laminated thickness of the rotor core is made larger than laminated thickness of the stator core.
Tadahiro Tominou, Itabashi-Ku JP
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|ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND ADHESIVE SHEET FOR SLIDE RAIL, AND METHOD FOR FIXING SLIDE RAIL - An adhesive composition for slide rail exhibits excellent workability in attaching a slide rail to a vehicle body and has a strong adhesive force after heating, the magnetic force of which can be lowered, which sustains the strong adhesive force after heating and then returning to room temperature so as to allow the firm fixation of the slide rail to the vehicle body, and which can lower the volume of the noise caused by opening/closing of a door. Specifically disclosed is an adhesive composition for slide rail which includes a hot-melt adhesive and a ferromagnetic substance, wherein the composition shows a density at 20° C. of 1.4-4.5 g/cm
Tadahiro Uemura, Shiga JP
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|METHOD FOR OPERATING REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE FILTRATION PLANT, AND REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE FILTRATION PLANT - A method for operating a reverse osmosis membrane filtration plant having a raw water intake unit, a pre-treatment unit, and a reverse osmosis membrane filtration unit having a reverse osmosis membrane module in this order, the method including: disposing a biofilm formation base material under conditions that reverse osmosis membrane supply water and/or reverse osmosis membrane non-permeated water in the reverse osmosis membrane filtration unit are/is flowed at a linear speed equal to a non-permeated water linear speed in the reverse osmosis membrane module of the reverse osmosis membrane filtration unit; evaluating a biofilm amount on the biofilm formation base material at a frequency of from once a day to once in six months; and controlling the method for operating a reverse osmosis membrane filtration plant based on results of the evaluation.
Tadahiro Watanabe, Kanagawa JP
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|DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A receiving apparatus according to the present invention is able to normally decode reception data even when a part of an initialization symbol during training is corrupted. The receiving apparatus includes an initialization signal generation unit that generates an initialization signal, and a descrambling circuit that descrambles reception data by a descrambler initialized by the initialization signal. The reception data includes a training data set for establishing connection of high-speed serial communication, the training data set including one or more TSn ordered sets. The TSn ordered set includes one or more COM symbols and one or more pieces of data other than COM symbols. The initialization signal generation unit generates the initialization signal at an initialization last timing at which at least the last COM symbol among the COM symbols forming the last TSn ordered set included in the training data set is input to the descrambling circuit.
Tadahiro Yamamoto, Shinagawa-Ku JP
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|REVIEW SUBMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, REVIEW SUBMISSION CONTROL METHOD, REVIEW SUBMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING SAID PROGRAM - In order to prevent an increase in posting of inappropriate reviews not helpful to users, a review posting control device (
|INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE PROGRAM - An information providing server includes a presentation request reception unit, a selection unit, a transmission unit, an answer reception unit, a storage unit and an updating unit. The presentation request reception unit receives a presentation request for a question requiring an answer from a terminal of a user. The selection unit selects one or more questions. The storage unit stores answer information in which a user ID, question IDs, and an answer status are associated, in an answer information storage unit, at a timing at which the questions selected by the selection unit are transmitted to the terminal if the user. Further, the selection unit extracts the answer information which includes the user ID and in which the answer status is unanswered, from the answer information storage unit, and selects questions corresponding to the question IDs of the extracted answer information as one or more questions.
|EVALUATION INFORMATION IDENTIFYING DEVICE, EVALUATION INFORMATION IDENTIFYING METHOD, EVALUATION INFORMATION IDENTIFYING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE PROGRAM - An evaluation information identifying device includes an extracting unit that, when, as a result of determining the presence or absence of a correlation between a supplier of an evaluation target and an evaluator having made a positive evaluation on the evaluation target, it is determined that there is a correlation, extracts evaluation information posted by the evaluator on the evaluation target provided by the supplier as specific evaluation information, and an outputting unit that performs specified processing based on the extracted specific evaluation information. It is thereby determined whether the possibility that the evaluator is an interested party to the supplier is high or low, and the evaluation information by an interested party to the evaluation target or the like is identified. It is thereby possible to provide useful evaluation information.
Tadahiro Yasuda, Kyoto-Shi JP
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|MASS FLOW CONTROLLER VERIFYING SYSTEM, VERIFYING METHOD AND VERIFYING PROGRAM - In a mass flow controller verifying system, there are provided a verifying gas line arranged in parallel to influent flow gas lines and joined into a post-confluent flow gas line, a reference volume calculating portion adapted to calculate a reference volume determined for a specified piping of a gas piping system, a verifying parameter calculating portion adapted to calculate a verifying parameter based on time series data of a measurement pressure measured by a pressure measurement unit during a control of a flow rate by a mass flow controller to be verified, and a comparing portion adapted to compare a reference parameter set based on the reference volume and the verifying parameter, whereby the verifying system can be introduced into an existing gas piping system used in a semiconductor manufacturing process and so forth at a low cost and is capable of verifying a mass flow controller quickly and accurately.
|FLUID MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - This invention is to improve procedures of maintenance of a fluid measurement system having a fluid measurement device and a control device. The fluid measurement system has a fluid measurement device and a control device to control the fluid measurement device, and the fluid measurement device comprises a fluid sensor and a related data store part configured to store fluid calculation related data for calculation of one or more fluid parameters with measurement data obtained by the fluid sensor, and the control device obtains the fluid calculation related data from the related data store part and calculates the one or more fluid parameters with the measurement data of the fluid sensor and the fluid calculation related data.
|FLOW RATE MEASURING DEVICE AND FLOW RATE CONTROLLER - A flow rate measuring device includes a fluid resistance member through which measurement target fluid flows; an upstream side pressure sensor configured to measure pressure on an upstream side of the fluid resistance member from a change of electrical resistance of a resistive element attached to a pressure sensitive surface onto which the target fluid is introduced, and also to measure a temperature of the pressure sensitive surface from a temperature-dependent change of the electrical resistance of the resistive element; a temperature sensor to measure a temperature of the target fluid flowing through the fluid resistance member; and a flow rate calculation part that calculates a flow rate of the target fluid based on the pressure measured by the upstream side pressure sensor, pressure-flow rate characteristics of the fluid resistance member, the upstream side pressure sensor temperature, and the target fluid temperature in the fluid resistance member.
|FLUID MECHANISM, SUPPORT MEMBER CONSTITUTING FLUID MECHANISM AND FLUID CONTROL SYSTEM - This invention provides a fluid mechanism that can arrange a plurality of fluid device units and external fluid devices mounted as a set on the fluid device units effectively and compactly. Each of the fluid device units is arranged with respective side surfaces in a longitudinal direction of the fluid device unit tightly attached, and the external fluid devices are arranged side-by-side external to and outside of the fluid device unit in the width direction. Furthermore, as for an introducing path and a discharging path that connect the external fluid devices and the fluid device unit, the introducing path, which is short, is connected to the discharging path, which is long.
|FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE, DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR USE IN FLOW RATE MEASURING MECHANISM OR FOR USE IN FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE INCLUDING THE FLOW RATE MEASURING MECHANISM AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON FOR USE IN THE SAME - The flow rate control device is provided with: a fluid resistor provided on the flow channel; a pressure sensor provided in any one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the fluid resistor; a stable state judging part configured to judge, based on the measurement flow rate value or a measurement pressure value measured by the pressure sensor, whether or not a state of the fluid flowing through the flow channel is in a stable state; and an abnormality diagnosing part configured to diagnose an abnormality of the measurement flow rate value based on a variation amount of the measurement pressure value in the case where the stable state judging part judges that the state of the fluid is in a stable state.
|FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE, DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR USE IN FLOW RATE MEASURING MECHANISM OR FOR USE IN FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE INCLUDING THE FLOW RATE MEASURING MECHANISM AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON FOR USE IN THE SAME - The flow rate control device is provided with: a fluid resistor provided on the flow channel; a pressure sensor provided in any one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the fluid resistor; a pressure calculating part configured to calculate a pressure in a side with respect to the fluid resistor where the pressure sensor is not provided; a flow rate calculating part configured to calculate a flow rate based on the measurement pressure value and a calculation pressure value calculated by the pressure calculating part; and an abnormality diagnosing part configured to diagnose an abnormality of the measurement flow rate value based on the measurement flow rate value and a calculation flow rate value.
|FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE, AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM USED FOR FLOW RATE CONTROL DEVICE - In order to be able to diagnose an abnormality occurring in a flow rate control valve with high reliability, and for example, if an abnormality occurs in the flow rate control valve, quickly perform appropriate maintenance or the like, a first measured flow rate diagnostic part that, on the basis of a second measured flow rate value or a measured pressure value, diagnoses an abnormality of a first measured flow rate value, and a valve diagnostic part that, when the first measured flow rate diagnostic part diagnoses that the first measured flow rate value has no abnormality, diagnoses an abnormality of the flow rate control valve are provided.
|MASS FLOW CONTROLLER VERIFYING SYSTEM, VERIFYING METHOD AND VERIFYING PROGRAM - In a mass flow controller verifying system, there are provided a verifying gas line arranged in parallel to influent flow gas lines and joined into a post-confluent flow gas line, a reference volume calculating portion adapted to calculate a reference volume determined for a specified piping of a gas piping system, a verifying parameter calculating portion adapted to calculate a verifying parameter based on time series data of a measurement pressure measured by a pressure measurement unit during a control of a flow rate by a mass flow controller to be verified, and a comparing portion adapted to compare a reference parameter set based on the reference volume and the verifying parameter, whereby the verifying system can be introduced into an existing gas piping system used in a semiconductor manufacturing process and so forth at a low cost and is capable of verifying a mass flow controller quickly and accurately.
|Flow Rate Control Device - The flow rate control device comprises a basal plate block wherein a single input port into which a fluid flows, a single output port from which the fluid flows out, two inflow channels whose proximal ends are connected to the input port and two outflow channels whose terminal ends are connected to the output port are formed, and two flow rate control units arranged on the basal plate block, and one of the flow rate control units is arranged between one of the inflow channels and one of the outflow channels, the other flow rate control unit is arranged between the other inflow channel and the other outflow channel, and each of the flow rate control units is configured to be capable of operating independently.
|Valve Element and Fluid Control Valve - The present invention is directed a valve element which is intended to improve a sealing property at a time of closing a fluid control valve and to improve stability while maintaining durability for a long time period, wherein the valve element constitutes one of a valve seat surface or a seating surface and the valve element includes a concave portion formed in an opposing surface facing the valve seat surface and a resin coating film which is formed in the concave portion and contacts the valve seat surface.
|SEALING MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention is mainly intended to provide a sealing member which can be easily manufactured and which is capable of sealing with high accuracy and a method of manufacturing the sealing member, wherein the sealing member is a metallic sealing member that is arranged so as to be interposed between a first surface and a second surface which are facing each other. The sealing member is provided with a first protrusion protruded toward the first surface and a pair of second protrusions protruded toward the second surface, wherein the first protrusion is arranged between the paired second protrusions and distal end portions of the first protrusion and second protrusions are mutually parallel flat surfaces.
|FLUID MIXING ELEMENT - The fluid mixing element in accordance with this invention forms a first internal flow channel whose starting end opens on an end surface of one end part and whose terminal end opens on an end surface of the other end part and a second internal flow channel whose starting end opens on a side peripheral surface of a middle part and whose terminal end opens on an end surface of the other end part. It is possible for the fluid mixing element to securely mix a first fluid flowing in a main flow channel with a second fluid flowing in a sub-flow channel by the use of a pipe with a short length with a simple arrangement.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Yasuda, Kyoto-Shi JP
Tadahiro Yasuda, Kobe-Shi JP
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|DIAGNOSTIC MECHANISM IN DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE TYPE MASS FLOW CONTROLLER - This invention provides a diagnostic mechanism of a differential pressure type mass flow controller comprising a diagnostic parameter calculating section that obtains a mass flow rate integrated value by means of an integrating calculation from the lowering pressure value of an inlet side sensor among the inlet side sensor and an outlet side sensor arranged in communication respectively at the inlet side and the outlet side of a differential pressure generating resistive element that generates a differential pressure between the inlet and the outlet by changing a flow rate control valve arranged on the channel where a fluid flows from a flow rate control state to a closed state, and further obtains a diagnostic volume value from the obtained mass flow rate integrated value, and a comparing section that compares the diagnostic volume value obtained at the diagnostic parameter calculating section with a specified volume value.
|FLOW CONTROLLER, FLOW MEASURING DEVICE TESTING METHOD, FLOW CONTROLLER TESTING SYSTEM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A testing method for testing a flow controller with high accuracy by shortening as much as possible the time required for the test including the wait time. A testing-subject flow controller and a testing-standard flow controller are arranged in that order in series from the upstream side in a flow channel through which a fluid whose flow is to be controlled flows. In a flow-uncontrolled state in which the valve of the testing-subject flow controller is practically in the full-open state, and with the fluid flow controlled to a predetermined flow rate by the testing-standard flow controller, whether the actual flow-rate measurement according to the testing-subject flow controller falls within a predetermined range of actual flow-rate measurements according to the testing-standard flow controller is determined.
|FLOW RATE RATIO CONTROLLING APPARATUS - The flow rate ratio controlling apparatus comprises differential pressure flow rate controllers (MFC
|GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM - A gas supply system is provided. The system includes a plurality of component gas supply pipes, a plurality of flow rate control mechanisms for controlling flow rates of the component gases flowing in the component gas supply pipes, and a material gas supply pipe connected with downstream ends of the component gas supply pipes, and connected with one of the gas supply ports at a downstream. The flow rate control mechanism includes flow rate control valves, individual pressure sensors, and fluid resistance elements provided to the component gas supply pipes in this order from upstream, respectively, a common pressure sensor, and controllers for calculating the flow rates of the gases flowing in the component gas supply and controlling the flow rate control valves of the corresponding component gas supply pipes so that the calculated component gas flow rate approaches a predetermined gas flow rate, respectively.
|FLUID CONTROLLER - A fluid controller is disclosed, having a body unit, a fluid controlling valve, pressure sensors, and a casing. The fluid controlling valve is attached to a component part attachment face of the body unit. The pressure sensors are attached to the component part attachment face so that the pressure sensing surfaces thereof are positioned substantially perpendicular to the component part attachment face and substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction. On the lateral walls of the casing, the inner surfaces thereof are arranged to be uneven, so that such sections facing the fluid controlling valve and the pressure sensors are arranged to be thin sections, whereas at least a part of such a section that does not face the fluid controlling valve and the pressure sensors is arranged to be a thick section that is thicker than the thin sections.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Yasuda, Kobe-Shi JP
Tadahiro Yoshida, Tokyo JP
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|CURRENT SENSOR - A core is divided by alternately arranging plural magnetic material portions and plural non-magnetic material portions in a circumferential direction of the core through which a primary conductor penetrates. A conductor is wound around the core under conditions in which each core cross section of the core intersects the magnetic material portion and the non-magnetic material portion, each core cross section including a cut end surface of each conductor of a secondary winding wound around the core, and a ratio of a magnetic material portion cross-sectional area of the magnetic material portion to a non-magnetic material portion cross-sectional area of the non-magnetic material portion at the core cross section is kept constant at each core cross section.
|GAS-INSULATED ELECTRIC DEVICE - A gas-insulated electric device, by which a cross-sectional area of a central conductor can be reduced. The gas-insulated electric device includes an insulation tube that ranges to portions facing to ground potential portions for a central conductor and to upper-lower portions along the grounding potential portions, and is coaxially arranged along the central conductor in a state where a gap intervenes between the central conductor and the insulation tube; a conductive layer that is formed on an inner surface of an insulation tube and is electrically connected to the central conductor; and a ground layer that is formed on an inner surface or an outer surface of the insulation tube and is grounded; in which heat generated from the central conductor is radiated by convecting the insulation gas through the gap between the central conductor and insulation tube.
|GAS INSULATED SWITCHGEAR - A gas insulated switchgear includes a vacuum interrupter having a movable contact and a fixed contact in vacuum. The movable contact is on one side of a movable conductor that passes through a bellows. An insulating rod is coupled to the other side of the movable conductor that passes through the bellows. The insulating rod and the other side of the movable conductor are placed in an insulator. The vacuum interrupter, the insulating rod, and the insulator are disposed in a gas tank. An operating mechanism is disposed on a movable side end portion of the gas tank and connected to the insulating rod. An inner circumferential side space of the bellows, an internal space of the insulator, and an internal space of the operating box are in communication with each other; and pressure in these spaces is lower than pressure in the gas tank.
|TANK-TYPE VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER - A tank-type vacuum circuit breaker includes: a pressure tank; an insulating frame that is detachably supported by a support member provided in the pressure tank using a coupling; a vacuum interrupter that is supported by the insulating frame and includes a stationary electrode and a moving electrode; a stationary-electrode side terminal that is connectably/disconnectably connected to a bushing-terminal side internal conductor; a moving-electrode side terminal that is connectably/disconnectably connected to a bushing-terminal side internal conductor; and an insulating rod, the inside end of which is detachably coupled to the moving electrode and the outside end of which is coupled to an opening/closing actuation mechanism that opens/closes the contacts of the stationary contact and moving contact. The vacuum interrupter, the stationary-electrode side terminal, the moving-electrode side terminal and the insulating frame are integrated into a unit, and the unit can be removed and mounted by disconnecting the connections and the couplings.
Patent applications by Tadahiro Yoshida, Tokyo JP