Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Koda & Androlia
  • Patent number: 7187749
    Abstract: A blur compensation apparatus for X-ray image of an object to be examined used for a medical X-ray imaging apparatus, which has an X-ray generator and an X-ray imaging device opposite to the X-ray generator, said X-ray generator and said X-ray imaging device interposing therebetween said object held by an object holding means, wherein a sensor means for detecting blur movement of said object is provided near an objective projection position on said object holding means, and wherein a blur compensation process is executed for the X-ray image obtained by said X-ray imaging device, based on a positional change information which is calculated from a detection signal detected by said sensor means during X-ray radiography, said positional change information being the positional change amount with respect to said objective projection position relative to a reference position previously specified on said object holding means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: J. Morita Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7187956
    Abstract: In a portable communication apparatus of the invention, an inner wall (22) of an openable/closable member (2) faces the front face of a diaphragm of a close-talking microphone (5) via a sound path (64), and an outer sound hole (27) faces the rear face of the diaphragm of the close-talking microphone (5) via a sound path (65). An inner sound hole (26) is biasedly located in a position which is close to a free end of the openable/closable member (2), and the outer sound hole (27) is biasedly located in a position which is close to the center position of opening and closing movements of the openable/closable member (2), thereby obtaining a speech quality of a very high S/N ratio at a substantially same degree in both the cases where the openable/closable member (2) is opened, and where the member is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugino, Kouji Saitou, Toshiya Inubushi, Shushin Noda, Koji Nasu, Tomohiko Kamimura
  • Patent number: 7183125
    Abstract: To provide a high quality SAW device with enhanced productivity, wherein an outer face of a SAW chip mounted on a mounting substrate is covered with a heat-softened resin sheet and resin is filled on the SAW chip to form an airtight space below an IDT in the SAW device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Toyo Communication Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Anzai, Yuji Ogawa, Yasuhide Onozawa
  • Patent number: 7183124
    Abstract: With a surface mount SAW device constituted so that an outer surface of a SAW chip is covered with a heated and softened sheet resin, a resin is filled into skirts of the SAW chip, and so that an airtight space is thereby formed below IDT electrode on a lower surface of the SAW chip, it is possible to dispense with negative pressure suction from through holes formed in a mounting substrate so as to ensure a filling amount of the resin into gaps, and dispense with strict management of heating temperature and suction profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Toyo Communication Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhide Onozawa
  • Patent number: 7180069
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation detector capable of detecting the radioactive substance accumulated in the tissue inside a body by inserting a detection unit into blood vessels. In the radiation detector of the present invention, comprising a detection unit (2) having a bar-type scintillator (4) which emits light by an incidence of radiation so as to transmit the light from the scintillator through an optical fiber, the detection unit is formed in a size capable of being inserted into the tubules while fine convexoconcaves are provided on the peripheral surface of the scintillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignees: Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd., Universal Giken Co., Ltd., SD Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Motomura, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Patent number: 7178242
    Abstract: An electric rotary shaver including a substantially circular disk form outer cutter, which has hair entry openings, and an inner cutter, which rotates while making sliding contact with the inner surface of the outer cutter; and the inner cutter including an inner cutter base, which is made of a synthetic resin and comprised of a boss that engages with a rotary shaft of the shaver and cutter blade supports that extend radially outward from the boss, and a plurality of cutter blade sections, which have a cutter blade and are installed on the cutter blade supports. The cutter blade sections can be formed in a shape of a ring to make a cutter blade ring so that the cutter blade ring is disposed on the cutter blade supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Izumi Products Company
    Inventor: Masaki Okabe
  • Patent number: 7172405
    Abstract: Fluid flow grooves (11) with a flat cross section being formed between the back surface of a metal mold (2) for blow molding and a back-up member (4) which adheres tightly to this back surface. A plurality of these fluid flow grooves (11) are provided, and these fluid flow grooves are disposed densely in parallel with partition walls (21) interposed between the grooves. Fluid inlets (12) and outlets (13) are formed in the respective fluid flow grooves (11). A heating fluid or cooling fluid enters the respective fluid flow grooves (11) via the inlets (12) from a fluid supply manifold (14). The fluid flows out of the outlets (13), enters a fluid discharge manifold (15), and is discharged to the outside. Rapid heating and rapid cooling of the metal mold (2) are performed, no irregularity occurs in temperature, and the cycle time can be shortened, so that a metal mold device for blow molding in which the energy consumption is small can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Minoru Kasei Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazumichi Nishioka, Naoshige Fukuhara, Naoaki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 7172695
    Abstract: A liquid treating apparatus includes a treating tank having at least two walls formed with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet through each of which a liquid to be treated flows, respectively, and a filtering layer unit including an antibacterial filtering layer, an adsorptive filtering layer and a filtering layer, the filtering layer unit being disposed between the liquid inlet and outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Akechi Ceramics Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinari Kato, Satoshi Kameshima, Mitsuro Hyakumachi, Yoshihiro Taguchi, Hideki Watanabe, Hayato Horinouchi
  • Patent number: 7171751
    Abstract: An electric shaver including first and second oscillators that convert rotational driving, which is supplied from a driving motor via joint portions that are connected to each other in a plurality of locations in the height direction of the shaver, into reciprocating driving that is oriented in mutually opposite directions and transmit this reciprocating driving to cutter units. The first and second oscillators are connected to first and second eccentric pins which are installed in upright at positions where phases are substantially opposite above and below the eccentric joint portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Izumi Products Company
    Inventors: Seiji Iwashita, Akira Hirabayashi, Yukio Izumi, Hiromi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 7172518
    Abstract: It is object of the present invention to provide a golf club shaft superior in accuracy, minimizing a displacement between thermosetting resin layers, capable of obtaining a feeling close to the feeling of a steel shaft, and superior in stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Masaki Wakabayashi, Hideaki Sanekata
  • Patent number: 7173499
    Abstract: Design means is provided to prevent electronic parts used in a high-stability piezoelectric oscillator from deterioration due to aging by heat when the high-temperature side of the working temperature range is as high as 85° C. A high-stability piezoelectric oscillator, which is provided with a first constant temperature oven having housed therein a piezoelectric resonator and electronic parts for oscillation, a second constant temperature oven having housed herein said first constant temperature oven, and temperature control means for controlling the temperature of each constant temperature oven, and in which the temperature of said first constant temperature oven is set lower than the temperature of said second constant temperature oven, is characterized in that a heat source is disposed near said piezoelectric resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Toyo Communication Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomio Satoh
  • Patent number: 7173150
    Abstract: This invention provides a process a process for recovering terephthalic acid from pulverized products of spent polyethylene terephthalate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Tsukishima Kikai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinichi Yazaki, Kozaburo Sakano, Nobuyuki Funakoshi, Kazuho Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7172034
    Abstract: A boring control method for a machine tool for automatically boring a deep hole using a central control means performing boring with programmed control. In the boring, the number of processing and steps of the machine tool is kept minimum, load torque of a tool is detected continuously using torque detection means, and the movement of the tip portion of the tool desired for a piece of work is confirmed from a reference point to a hole bottom using a Z-axis movement device. The boring is continued in each step until the load torque exceeds a predetermined torque limit value, performed in a condition where a main shaft rotation number, or rotation speed of the tool, and feed speed form a specific pattern, and a condition is set where a total step number (f) does not exceed a predetermined limit step number (N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Horkos Corp.
    Inventors: Tadashi Makiyama, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Toshihiko Amako
  • Patent number: 7170058
    Abstract: An abnormality detection support device, suitable for a case where rescue operations are made under situations that visibility is disturbed by smoke due to fire, includes an infrared camera, a display which, at least when the infrared camera is in use, comes to be positioned in front of a user's eyes and reproduces an image taken by the infrared camera thereon and a face protector or a helmet, on which the infrared camera and the display are provided, and the infrared camera and the display are arranged to be within an outline of the user's head in a front view when the device is put on the user. The present invention can, therefore, provide the abnormality detection support device which enables an operator to work with both hands available while directly watching the infrared image even under a circumstance that smoke or the like due to occurrence of fire disturbs the field of vision of the operator, and has excellent usability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignees: Sharp Corporation, Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Miyano, Fumio Ishibashi, Yoshihisa Ishiba, Noboru Kawanishi, Takeshi Takata, Eiji Shimizu, Hideya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7170692
    Abstract: A mechanical cam type zoom lens device includes a movement position detector detecting movement positions of focus and zoom lenses moved by respective drivers, a reference compensation value calculating unit setting a plurality of zooming positions for a zoom lens when a focus lens is located at a predetermined focusing position and calculating an amount of movement from a predetermined focusing position in a case where the focus lens is adjusted to be in focus when the zoom lens is located at each set zooming position, the calculated amount of movement serving as a reference compensation value, a storage storing data of the reference compensation values, a focusing compensation value calculating unit calculating a focusing compensation value for the focus lens in a case where the zoom lens is located at the movement position, based on the set zooming positions, the reference compensation value read from the storage and the movement position of the zoom lens, and a focusing unit focusing the focus lens based
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Elmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Toguchi, Yasuhiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 7167324
    Abstract: The imaging lens system includes, from the object side, a diaphragm, a first lens as a positive meniscus lens whose convex surface faces the object side, and a second lens as a positive lens whose convex surface faces the image surface side, wherein the following expressions are to be satisfied 1.25?L/fl?0.8, 1?f1/f2>0.55, 1.8?f1/fl?1, 4?f2/fl?1.5, 1?d2/d1?0.5, 0.27?d1/fl?0.1, 0.27?d3/fl?0.1 (where, L: entire length of the lens system, fl: focal distance of entire lens system, f1: focal distance of the first lens, f2: focal distance of the second lens, d1: center thickness of the first lens, d2: distance between the first lens and second lens on the optical axis, d3: center thickness of the second lens).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Saito
  • Patent number: D536436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Seiho International, Inc.
    Inventor: Keisuke Nishizawa
  • Patent number: D537520
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Seiho International, Inc.
    Inventor: Keisuke Nishizawa
  • Patent number: D537792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Imai
  • Patent number: D538322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Horikiri