| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6772412 |
Data processing device equipped with a thread switching circuit |
August 3, 2004 |
| A device is provided with a control device that activates a stack machine and that also controls thread switching. This will reduce both the hardware requirements and the number of development processes needed to produce a switching control mechanism. It will also allow the threads to |
| 6769682 |
Device for reversing direction of motion of paper sheet |
August 3, 2004 |
| A device for reversing the direction of motion of a paper sheet has a passage for guiding the paper sheet inside and includes a plurality of rollers each having a specified function. A first roller serves as a driver roller, its rotation causing the paper sheet to be transported into |
| 6768501 |
Graphic data processing apparatus using displayed graphics for program selection |
July 27, 2004 |
| A graphic data processing apparatus comprising a CPU coupled to an entry device, storage storing graphic data and a plurality of programs and a display, and adapted such that a command mode for drawing a desired graphic form is selected by designating the corresponding desired graphic |
| 6768405 |
Switching device |
July 27, 2004 |
| A switching device of low power consumption type, in which magnetic pole portions 37c of a pair of iron cores 37 constructing an electromagnet block 30 are individually arranged on the bottom face of a sealing case 41. The other end portions of the paired iron cores 37 are connected to |
| 6765462 |
Relay |
July 20, 2004 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide a relay in which an external lead-out terminal portion can be arranged in an optional position so as to constitute an in-line terminal while forming a base and performing a sealing operation easily. Horizontal portions are formed by be |
| 6763131 |
Model registration method and image processing apparatus |
July 13, 2004 |
| A mechanism to produce projection images 40A-40G representing a model extraction region and an image sensing region is incorporated in an image sensing unit 1 of an image processing apparatus. A control unit 2 receives an image from image sensing unit 1 to calculate density deviation wit |
| 6759644 |
Sensor using radiation pulses |
July 6, 2004 |
| A sensor has an emitting device for emitting radiation pulses repeatedly and a receiving device for receiving these pulses. The receiving device includes a converter such as a photoelectric converter to convert the received radiation pulses into electrical pulses. On the basis of a known |
| 6759182 |
Manufacturing method and apparatus of optical device and reflection plate provided with resin th |
July 6, 2004 |
| There is provided a manufacturing method of an optical device having a micro-asperity pattern that has various kinds of accurate three-dimensional shapes and is realized as thin films. A substrate is coated with a resin thin film made of a photosensitive resin, and the temperature of |
| 6758821 |
Sphygmomanometer cuff capable of blocking blood flow favorably even with small width in wrapping |
July 6, 2004 |
| A bladder incorporated in a cuff includes an outer wall located at the outer side, an inner wall located at the inner side, side walls connected to both side ends of the outer wall and the inner wall in the wrapping direction, and folded inward of the bladder, and a joint connecting the |
| 6756899 |
Portable communication terminal and communication method, antitheft apparatus and antitheft meth |
June 29, 2004 |
| It is possible to certainly prevent a vehicle from being stolen at low cost. A user of an automobile 31 registers an on or off state of a security mode with a center apparatus 33 in advance. When abnormality is detected by a sensor 41, the abnormality is notified to a center communic |
| 6756869 |
Housing for plural relay switches |
June 29, 2004 |
| The object of this invention is to provide a relay unit and a housing for that unit to be used when a number of relay switches are installed side by side in a circuit to switch a power supply circuit on and off. A number of compartments are provided in a case with an open top such that o |
| 6756577 |
Light detector and light detecting IC therefor |
June 29, 2004 |
| A light detecting IC has a single light receiving element, a first signal processing circuit for processing signals outputted from this light receiving element, a pair of input terminals for receiving signals from outside, a second signal processing circuit for processing signals rec |
| 6753489 |
Switch, push-button switch and rotary-lever switch |
June 22, 2004 |
| The present invention is provided with a contact switching mechanism having a movable contact member that is bent into a U shape, allowed to press and contact a fixed contact member side, and supported so as to freely tilt and move thereon. In this mechanism, a switching operation is car |
| 6750744 |
Electromagnetic relay |
June 15, 2004 |
| An electromagnetic relay is provided with an iron core (50) which has a virtually J-letter shape on a plan view with one end serving as a support-receiving portion (51) and the other end serving as a magnetic pole portion (52), and a movable iron member (60) which is supported by a m |
| 6750439 |
Light curtain generating device including single-beam optical modules |
June 15, 2004 |
| In a light curtain generating device comprising a pair of pillar assemblies for supporting arrays of light emitting and receiving units which are placed opposite to each other so as to form a light curtain for detecting an object between the pillar assemblies, the light emitting and rece |
| 6747745 |
Displacement sensor |
June 8, 2004 |
| In a displacement sensor (10) comprising a sensor head (1) and a controller (2) either integrally or separately, the sensor head comprises a measurement light emitting optical system (113), an image acquiring optical system (127a, 127b) and a two dimensional imaging device (122). The |
| 6739591 |
Sheet double feeding detector, method and program of such a device |
May 25, 2004 |
| An ultrasonic wave receiver receives an ultrasonic wave outputted by an ultrasonic wave oscillator, and outputs a receiving signal. A level determining unit makes a determination as to the presence or absence of a sheet of paper based upon a level of the receiving signal. A CPU is in |
| 6738567 |
Photograph vending machine |
May 18, 2004 |
| An automatic photograph sticker vending machine (11) is provided with a camera (21) for picking up an image of a subject, an illuminating device (22) for illuminating the subject, a display (16) for displaying various information such as the image, an input device (17) manipulated from |
| 6737729 |
Anisotropic etching of a semiconductor device using tilted etching holes |
May 18, 2004 |
| A semiconductor device is provided that simplifies wiring pattern and is capable of being etched through an etching hole as a concavity is produced over a short time period. A dielectric film 12 is formed so as to shield the concavity formed upon the upper surface of a silicon substrate |
| 6731116 |
Short-circuit detector |
May 4, 2004 |
| A short-circuit detector has connected between positive and negative terminals of a DC power source a series connection including sequentially a first switch, a first detection resistor, a second detection resistor and a second switch, a third switch between a grounding terminal such as |
| 6729376 |
Sheet sorting apparatus |
May 4, 2004 |
| A sheet sorting apparatus which easily sorts sheets into groups, and makes these groups readily distinguishable on a single output tray. According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a sheet sorting apparatus located at the sheet outlet location of an image processing device |
| 6726196 |
Sheet post-processing device and image-forming device |
April 27, 2004 |
| This invention relates to a sheet post-processing device and an image-forming device. The mechanism that arranges sheets to be a bundle and that discharges the bundle will be reduced in size and cost. A sheet S1 guided by the guide 44 is conveyed to a tray 12 by a discharging roller |
| 6726095 |
Medium processing apparatus and bill processing apparatus |
April 27, 2004 |
| The sort result of sorting into the denominations of bills fitted to storage and the denominations of bills not fitted to storage for each of cartridges 11a to 11d placed in a main unit of an apparatus are displayed on a display section 4. When the denomination of bills to be stored for |
| 6725345 |
Object-oriented program with a memory accessing function |
April 20, 2004 |
| An information processing system is provided that is capable of memory access suitable in any programming environment and which increases reliability by varying or restricting program access to memory areas. A number of data storage areas are established in memory that are equal to a |
| 6725288 |
System for transmitting data between a device data area and a variable data area of a memory acc |
April 20, 2004 |
| A controller contains an I/O memory and uses a device detecting service to detect a device connected to it through a network and to obtain its device identifying data. A memory map setting service sets a device data area on the I/O memory according to the obtained device identifying data |
| 6724491 |
Visual displacement sensor |
April 20, 2004 |
| Provided is a visual displacement sensor which comprises a laser diode (112) for impinging a line beam onto an object to be measured at a prescribed angle, a two-dimensional CCD (122) for monitoring the object to be measured, on which the line beam is impinged, from a different angle, |
| 6724164 |
Opening-and-closing member control device |
April 20, 2004 |
| A power-window control device is provided which is capable of inexpensively avoiding the occurrence of a failure, not to overlook in safety, due to a short-circuit (including current leak) at between adjacent ones of switch terminals. The switch terminals are arranged in a combination th |
| 6720545 |
Photoelectric sensor, control method therefor and semiconductor integrated circuit therefor |
April 13, 2004 |
| A photoelectric sensor transmits pulsed light repetitively, receives light which may include noise and generates a corresponding electrical reception signal. The level of reception signal is compared with a specified threshold value at a timing which is slightly delayed from the timing o |
| 6720508 |
Door switches |
April 13, 2004 |
| A switch includes a switching mechanism, an operating mechanism with a key which normally causes the switching mechanism to be in a switched-off condition when it is pulled out and to be displaced against a biasing force to be in a switched-on condition when the key is inserted, and a |
| 6717515 |
Sensor system |
April 6, 2004 |
| Provided is a sensor system which allows setting and adjustment to be conducted in a simple manner. The sensor system comprises a plurality of sensor units which are adapted to be placed closely one next to another and each assigned with an individual address, and a mobile console which |
| 6717129 |
Photoelectric sensor using radiation pulses |
April 6, 2004 |
| A photoelectric sensor has an emitting device for emitting radiation pulses repeatedly and a receiving device for receiving these pulses. The receiving device includes a converter such as a photoelectric converter to convert the received radiation pulses into electrical pulses. On the ba |
| 6713944 |
Actuator and method of manufacturing a strain element |
March 30, 2004 |
| There is provided a small and inexpensive actuator which has a simple structure and can obtain a large displacement. When voltage is applied to electrodes 2a and 2b formed on an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface of a piezoelectric ceramic 1 wound like a |
| 6710592 |
High-precision sensor circuit for small-diameter cylindrical contact displacement detector |
March 23, 2004 |
| A displacement detector has a contact sensor incorporating a differential transformer and a circuit for adjusting the amplitude of the driving signal for driving a differential transformer of the sensor by feeding back as a standard signal the driving signal through an amplifier and an |
| 6705603 |
Binding apparatus |
March 16, 2004 |
| A binding apparatus has a switching flapper 15 switching a feed path for feeding papers to either an upper discharge port or a lower discharge port, a discharge roller 20 provided on the upper discharge port, and a shutter 13, a stapler 14 and a discharge roller 12 provided on the lower |
| 6705312 |
Inhalator attachment and nebulizer equipped with same |
March 16, 2004 |
| A nebulizer has a main body and an inhalator attachment which is detachably attached to the main body. The attachment has a tubular member including an receptacle. The tubular member has a medicament inlet for receiving nebulized medicament from the nebulizer, an inhalation opening which |
| 6700529 |
Radar device for automobile |
March 2, 2004 |
| A radar device set on an automobile includes a transmitter for transmitting forward a beam of electromagnetic waves, a receiver for receiving reflected waves of the transmitted beam from a vehicle traveling in front, a measuring device for measuring a distance to the vehicle in front bas |
| 6700499 |
Body motion detector |
March 2, 2004 |
| A body motion detector, to be attached to or carried by a user for detecting body motions of the user, uses a plurality of sensors each for detecting body motions in a specified direction to output a body motion signal according to the user's body motion. These sensors are disposed so |
| 6699195 |
Electronic blood pressure monitor and blood pressure data processing system |
March 2, 2004 |
| In a blood pressure monitor, time habit data representing daily time habits of a patient and a plurality of timings for blood pressure measurement determined by a medical doctor are inputted. The predetermined timings are variably adjusted based on the daily time habit data, and results |
| 6698753 |
Device for and method of detecting an overlap in paper being transported |
March 2, 2004 |
| An unintentionally overlapped condition in a paper sheet being transported is detected by making ultrasonic waves incident on its path and detecting a phase difference between the received ultrasonic waves and a predetermined standard phase. For detecting an overlap on the basis of t |
| 6695203 |
Boarding pass processing unit, boarding gate reader, person collation unit, boarding system, boa |
February 24, 2004 |
| There is provided a boarding pass processing unit that can enable identification of a person-to-board to be easily performed in short time to thereby enhance services to persons-to-board and keep security. The boarding pass processing unit prints a face image of a person-to-board on |
| 6694821 |
Cuff of wrist-mount blood pressure monitor |
February 24, 2004 |
| A cuff of a wrist-mount blood pressure monitor capable of oppressing an artery of the wrist securely without having effects of muscle, tendon or bone existing in the wrist area is presented. This cuff 10 of a wrist-mount blood pressure monitor comprises a first air bag 14A as a first |
| 6692311 |
Sensor system and connector used therefor |
February 17, 2004 |
| A sensor system includes a plurality of sensor bodies arranged aligned and adjacent to each other, each of said sensor bodies being connected to an electric cord including at least a signal line via a connector. Each connector has a power feed terminal, and a detachable fitting for e |
| 6688532 |
Controller, temperature controller and heat processor using same |
February 10, 2004 |
| A controller controls a physical variable such as temperature of a controlled system. A variable calculator calculates and output a manipulated variable on the controlled system based on of a target value such as a target temperature and a feedback value such as the measured temperat |
| 6687017 |
Printer equipped with image recognition unit for counterfeiting prevention, computer providing p |
February 3, 2004 |
| A computer (901) has a function of controlling operation of an image recognition unit (201) for counterfeiting prevention in a printer (902). According to this function, a control signal (S1) for instructing operation of the image recognition unit is output to the printer when the ty |
| 6684694 |
Flow sensor, method of manufacturing the same and fuel cell system |
February 3, 2004 |
| In a flow sensor, a heater is provided in the middle of an insulation thin film stretched above a gap on a substrate. Temperature measuring elements, which in some embodiments are thermopiles, are provided on both sides of the same, and an ambient temperature measuring resistive element |
| 6680709 |
Antenna apparatus |
January 20, 2004 |
| There is provided an antenna apparatus in which a non-detection region is made minimum within the regulatory limit of radio wave radiation, and satisfactory communication is enabled over a wide range. Four substantially square antennas are adjacently arranged on the same plane to con |
| 6679436 |
Sprayer |
January 20, 2004 |
| A spray sprays a liquid medicine from a spray part 30. When a liquid sensing electrode 55, 56 arranged on the spray part 30 senses the quantity of the liquid stored in a storage part 30a and determines that the quantity of the liquid decreases, a pin part 27 is driven by a solenoid 26 |
| 6679153 |
Mine detector and inspection apparatus |
January 20, 2004 |
| A mine detector is provided for detecting buried land mines safely and promptly. A sensor head (12) is connected to a detector body (1) through hinges (11-1 to 11-4) and arms (12-1 to 12-3). The sensor head (12) includes a transmitting and receiving means for emitting electromagnetic |
| 6676034 |
Atomizer and inhalator using same |
January 13, 2004 |
| An atomizer has a liquid container containing a liquid to be atomized and an oscillator having a cylindrically shaped top part and protruding from the bottom of the liquid container. A pipe or a portion of the inner wall of the liquid container is sufficiently close to the outer surface |
| 6674416 |
Small-sized sensor |
January 6, 2004 |
| A photoelectric sensor 11 has a level display unit (28). The level display unit (28) is constituted by arranging a plurality of 7-segment indicators (33). The 7-segment indicators (33) are partially constituted of red LED segments (33b) and partially constituted of red/green two-color LE |
