Patents Assigned to Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Publication number: 20040036930
    Abstract: A color image processing device includes n line sensors which are arranged with a prescribed interval L between one another, an image signal output unit which outputs image signals under a prescribed cycle from the line sensors and a line memory which stores the image signals for a plurality of lines and outputs the image signals with a delay. A control unit is provided for controlling to input one of the image signals of a certain cycle into the line memory, and to output an image signal from the line memory by delaying a certain number of lines, in accordance with a prescribed rate of magnification N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Namikawa, Katsushi Mimamino
  • Patent number: 6695558
    Abstract: Nails for use in construction have a length indication provided by numerical markings comprised of numerals formed by contouring on the nail head combined with a color coding as to nail length, by coloring recessed areas of the head to protect the coloring when the nail is being driven. The color coding and numeric length indication can be read either before or after the nail has been driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Harutoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20040034692
    Abstract: An electronic mail server device includes a reception unit which receives an electronic mail, a determination unit which determines whether a prescribed processing condition is satisfied in accordance with the received electronic mail, and a control unit which executes a prescribed processing to the received electronic mail when the processing condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Applicant: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Eguchi, Yoshifumi Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20040034691
    Abstract: A plurality of mail servers are registered along with a priority order, and normally, a mail server is selected in accordance with the priority order, and the electronic mail is transmitted. When a failure generates in the selected mail server, the electronic mail is transmitted by using a mail server of next in order. When failing in the transmission of the electronic mail via the selected mail server, it is determined whether to select a mail server of next in order, to establish a connection again with the mail server that was selected at the time of the failure in the transmission of the electronic mail, or to cancel the transmission, in accordance with contents of the failure. Since a plurality of mail servers can be used, even when a failure generates in a mail server, the electronic mail can be transmitted by using another mail server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 6694216
    Abstract: The present invention provides a large-scale carrying system that allows the operation of only a part of the system which has been completely constructed, while concurrently allowing the construction of a part of the system which has not been constructed yet. A carrying system comprises a carrying vehicle system 3 which carries an article to a predetermined location using a carrying vehicle, an article housing system 4 in which the article is temporarily housed for storage, an integrating controller 5 which integrally controls a system set 2 comprising at least one carrying vehicle system 3 and at least one article housing system 4, and an auxiliary controller 14 which can integrally manage at least part of the system set. The integrating controller 5 and the auxiliary controller 14 are connected together through a network. It is thus possible to transfer data on the part of the system set 2 which is integrally managed by the auxiliary controller 14, to the integrating controller 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujiki, Hiroki Sone
  • Publication number: 20040024489
    Abstract: The present invention provides a large-scale carrying system that allows the operation of only a part of the system which has been completely constructed, while concurrently allowing the construction of a part of the system which has not been constructed yet. A carrying system comprises a carrying vehicle system 3 which carries an article to a predetermined location using a carrying vehicle, an article housing system 4 in which the article is temporarily housed for storage, an integrating controller 5 which integrally controls a system set 2 comprising at least one carrying vehicle system 3 and at least one article housing system 4, and an auxiliary controller 14 which can integrally manage at least part of the system set. The integrating controller 5 and the auxiliary controller 14 are connected together through a network. It is thus possible to transfer data on the part of the system set 2 which is integrally managed by the auxiliary controller 14, to the integrating controller 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujiki, Hiroki Sone
  • Publication number: 20040024829
    Abstract: To reduce workload on an Internet facsimile machine on the transmission side, and to execute a retransmission processing promptly and reliably, an electronic mail server device includes a function for receiving an electronic mail, a function for transmitting the received electronic mail to the Internet facsimile machine of a destination via the Internet, and a function for carrying out a facsimile transmission of the image data via a public telephone network. The electronic mail server device also includes a RAM which stores an address/number corresponding table which corresponds the electronic mail address and the facsimile number of the Internet facsimile machine of the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20040019649
    Abstract: A mail server includes a POP mail box which stores received electronic mail by corresponding each of the electronic mail and an electronic mail address of a destination of each of the electronic mail, and an SMTP server which transmits electronic mail of a new mail notification to the electronic mail address of the destination of the received electronic mail by a push method protocol. The mail server also includes a distribution unit which distributes the electronic mail by a pull method protocol in accordance with a distribution request from the electronic mail address of the destination of the electronic mail stored in the mailbox. When receiving electronic mail, the received electronic mall is stored into the POP mailbox without distributing the received electronic mail immediately. When necessary, a new mail notification is carried out to an electronic mail address of a destination of the received electronic mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 6683953
    Abstract: Instead of immediately encrypting a plain text, a n-bit plain text is first converted to a m-bit of expanded plain text in order to limit the weight of the plain text to w, and that expanded plain text is then encrypted. By first converting the plain text to the expanded plain text wherein the weight has been limited, a smaller modulus can be used, and therefore the rate (or encryption efficiency) rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignees: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Kasahara, Shinya Kiuchi, Yasuyuki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20040012672
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cylindrical tube probing device (P) having a casing with a camera and wheel members disposed on the casing. When a spacing between the wheel members disposed at respective sides of the casing is enlarged, support frames (4A), (4B) which are disposed on said casing and on which the respective wheel members are disposed are moved in a vertical direction in unison with the enlarging or contracting motion. A center of a lens (2a) disposed in the camera is located at a center (t2),(t3) of a cylindrical tube (T1), (T2). Therefore, the tube probing device can be placed in a tube of an arbitrary diameter buried in the ground without the need to increase the distance the wheel members are moved for enlargement or contraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Shiota
  • Publication number: 20040008354
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an isolated point detecting unit that detects isolated points from image data, an isolated point counting unit that counts the isolated points detected by the isolated point detecting unit, and an isolated point eliminating unit that eliminates the isolated points from the image data. When the number of the isolated points counted by the counting unit reaches a threshold value or less, the isolated points are eliminated from the image data by the isolated point eliminating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanori Asakura
  • Patent number: 6675628
    Abstract: To provide a punch press which can realize the high hit rate and the energy saving in the punch drive. A plate material transfer control means 32 and a ram axis control means 33 controlled synchronously are provided. The plate material is started to transfer when a punch tool 6 reaches a pullout height HH2 after punching and it is arranged to come to a height HH1 which is likely to contact with the plate material when completing transferring the plate material. The ram axis control means 33 rotates a servomotor 19 in one direction. Moreover, the ram axis control means 33 controls in a motor speed pattern VP based on the distance of transferring the plate material after the punch tool 6 goes up from the pullout height HH2 and the servomotor 19 is prevented from stopping as possible. The motor speed pattern VP is made to be a trapezoid pattern that the acceleration is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20040003121
    Abstract: To provide a document server which can use a document without preparing various application programs regardless of a data format of the document. In response to a request from a client, a converted document data generation unit retrieves a document from a document storage unit, generates a converted document data of HTML format or the like, and transmits the generated converted document data to the client through a network communication unit. When the client inputs information into an input item and the converted document data is returned to the document server, a document embedding unit extracts the input information and embeds the extracted input information into the input item of the original document to form a new document. According to a request, a preview image data generation unit generates preview image data from the new document, and transmits to the client. The preview image data is displayed at the client, and the preview is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20040000129
    Abstract: According to the present invention, in a carrying system comprising a carrying vehicle and a manufacturing apparatus the interior of which is kept cleaner than a surrounding environment, manufactured articles to be transferred are prevented from being contaminated by foreign matter or the like attached to transfer ports. A carrying vehicle includes a running unit 14 that runs along a predetermined carrying path, a cleaning unit 12 that supplies cleaned air, a housing section 13 to which the cleaned air is supplied and in which manufactured articles are housed, a transfer port 11 which is formed in a side of a housing and through which a manufactured article is loaded into or unloaded from the housing section 13, and an air injecting section 19A that blows out air toward the transfer port 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicants: ADVANCED DISPLAY INC., Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Takao Shimizu, Takashi Nakao, Ryosuke Tahara, Hidetoshi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20040003320
    Abstract: An apparatus diagnostic device includes a communication unit that communicates with a diagnosed device through a communication line, and a control unit that controls to receive a problem generation notification from the diagnosed device via the communication unit, to determine whether or not to solve a problem in accordance with apparatus status information obtained from the diagnosed device after an elapse of a prescribed period of time, and to have a notification standard of the problem generation notification changed by the diagnosed device when necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Oshima
  • Publication number: 20030229416
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automated guided vehicle system that can transfer an article between an automated guided vehicle and an automatic warehouse on the basis of easy control. In an automated guided vehicle system 1, the vehicle 10A running on a running path is provided with a roller conveyor 8 used to transfer an article. Further, automatic warehouses 5 are each provided with an article storage and retrieval roller conveyor 51. The transfer roller conveyor 8, which runs with the vehicle 10A, and the storage and retrieval roller conveyor 51 are arranged in series and in proximity to each other in a carrying direction. An article 9 can be transferred between the vehicle 10A and the automatic warehouse 5. The bottom surface of the article 9 is formed as planar portions 9c, 9c at its laterally opposite ends in the carrying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akito Tai, Hideji Sakata
  • Patent number: 6655122
    Abstract: A core yarn manufacturing machine has a spinning unit including a hollow guide shaft member wherein the yarn passage is formed in the axis direction, and a nozzle applies a whirling flow to the tip section of the hollow guide shaft member. A core yarn is manufactured by winding the fiber bundle into the spinning unit, around the core fiber which is also fed, in the tip section of the hollow guide shaft member. The machine has a suction force producer for producing a suction force toward the interior of the yarn passage from the entrance of the hollow guide shaft member, and a core fiber feeding apparatus that feeds to the spinning unit. A control device controls the operation and non-operation of the whirling flow generating nozzle, the suction force producer and the core fiber feeding apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masazumi Shigeyama, Harutoshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 6655253
    Abstract: An airship envelope manufacturing method uses a braider such that the envelope is formed as one object composed by the braider. A pair of braiding materials, whose braiding angle is ±&thgr;° to the axis, and an axial material whose angle is 0° to the axis, are organized as the braiding layer by the braider BR and the envelope En shaped like the airship is composed as one body by the braiding layer. The thickness of the braiding layer in both of the axial end parts of the airship envelope is arranged to be formed thinner than the thickness in the axial central part. The three braiding layers can be a spindle-shaped tape made of a plurality of parallel fibers having non-identical lengths, and the width of the spindle-shaped tape along the airship axis can be a function of an airship diameter along the airship axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Tadashi Uozumi, Masahiko Onda
  • Publication number: 20030217780
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multiaxis three-dimensional woven fabric manufacturing method and apparatus which serves to increase the density of a weave in a three dimensional woven fabric product. A three-dimensional woven fabric manufacturing method according to the present invention is characterized by including a step of forming a 4-axis yarn laminate LB of a desired thickness by using warps X, wefts Y, and a set of bias yarns B1, B2 to laminate a plurality of warp layers, a plurality of weft layers, and a plurality of layers each comprising the set of bias yarn layers, and a vertical yarn stitching step of stitching vertical yarns Z into the 4-axis yarn laminate from one surface of it in its laminating direction, and in that a three-dimensional woven fabric is formed by stitching the vertical yarn to fasten the warps X, wefts Y, and set of bias yarns B1, B2 together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Applicant: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Uchida
  • Publication number: 20030215265
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drive source which is detachably mountable to a main body, wherein the main body includes a gear which can be driven rotatable by the drive source and which includes a coupling protrusion on a radial line. A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a process unit which acts upon the photosensitive drum, and a coupling hole which is provided at an end part of a radial direction of the photosensitive drum. The photosensitive drum set in the main body rotates by receiving a drive force from the drive source via the coupling protrusion and the coupling hole when a cover member of the main body is closed, and the coupling protrusion and the coupling hole are fit together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: MURATA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Kawai