Patents Issued in September 20, 2001
  • Publication number: 20010023155
    Abstract: An idling speed control system for an outboard motor mounted on a boat and equipped with an internal combustion engine, whose output is connected to a propeller through a clutch, having secondary air supplier that supplies secondary air. In the system, the engine start-state as to whether the engine has been started is determined and the clutch position is detected and based thereon, the desired idling speed and the desired secondary air supply amount is determined through learning control. With this, the system can therefore accurately determine the desired idling speed and the desired secondary air supply amount and achieve steady idling speed even if load changes owing to a change in clutch position or propeller replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sadafumi Shidara, Ryuichi Kimata, Nobuhiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20010023156
    Abstract: There is provided an antibacterial fiber, an antibacterial twisted yarn and an antibacterial cloth which exhibits high durability to post-processing with water, detergent, staining or the like at a small added amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Ishizuka Garasu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makio Nomura
  • Publication number: 20010023157
    Abstract: The present invention relates to both a textile article and a method of making the textile article. The textile article is a two-sided multicolor Jacquard, Dobby or Cam woven textile with a graphic impression on at least one side thereof. In one embodiment, the front side of the textile has a dark color border and a light color area within said border. The light color area is the area receiving the graphic impression. It is sometimes advantageous to reverse the textile. Therefore, in another embodiment the front side has a light color border with a dark central area, and the dark central area will receive the graphic impression. The graphic impression may be applied by screen printing, image dyeing, digital imaging, or heat transfer (heat applied graphics).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: James M. Sheppard
  • Publication number: 20010023158
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for use in coated abrasives. The curable composition comprises a mixture of: i) from about 30 to about 60 weight percent of an oligomeric aminoplast resin having on average at least one pendant &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated carbonyl group per oligomeric unit; ii) from about 70 to about 40 weight percent of a thermoplastic polyamide miscible in said aminoplast resin, the weight percents being based on the total resin content; and iii) a sufficient amount of a catalyst for the curable oligomeric aminoplast resin having on average at least one pendant &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated carbonyl group per oligomeric unit, said catalyst being stable at a temperature of mixing of the components. The curable composition can either be in the form of a melt-processable solid or a molten mixture. The present invention also provides single and multilayered treated backing substrates used in coated abrasives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Robert J. DeVoe, Gregg D. Dahlke
  • Publication number: 20010023159
    Abstract: An absorbent pad formed having an upper film layer of a heat resistant porous material: a lower film layer of a heat resistant, non-absorbent, non-porous material, the lower film being bonded to the upper film layer along at least two of their respective opposing peripheral edges and an intermediate absorbent layer of liquid absorbent material between the upper film layer and lower film layer having the absorbent material at least partially bonded to the inside surface of at least one of the upper film layer or lower film layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: First Brands Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Chen, Jack A. MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20010023160
    Abstract: A water disintegratable non-woven fabric having excellent water disintegratability and high wet strength can be obtained by a step of forming a fiber web from fibers having a fiber length of 10 mm or less, a step of applying a water jet treatment to the fiber web to obtain a fiber sheet having wet strength of less than 100 g/25 mm in MD and CD, the wet strength being defined by tensile strength at break of the fiber sheet, as measured by using a tensilon tester with a chuck distance of 100 mm, at a tensile speed of 100 mm/min to the fiber sheet which is cut into 25 mm width and 150 mm length and impregnated with water in an amount 2.5 times the weight of the fiber sheet, and a step of adding at least one binder selected from the group consisting of carboxymethyl cellulose, alkylcellulose, polyvinyl alcohol and modified polyvinyl alcohol to the fiber sheet. The water disintegratable non-woven fabric is sufficiently bulky and has an excellent wiping effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamada, Naohito Takeuchi, Takayoshi KonishI
  • Publication number: 20010023161
    Abstract: A display panel includes a resin lens layer. The display panel consists of a front panel 10 and a back panel 12 which are hermetically sealed together. The display panel also includes a plurality of display cells and is filled with a gas. A visible-light transparent resin is coated over the front surface of the front panel 10. The resin layer is raise-molded with a molding tool 16 while being solidified. Through this molding process, a resin lens layer 14 with plural lenses is formed on the front surface of the front panel 10. The resin lens layer 14 formed on the front surface of the front panel 10 can improve the brightness of the display cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Hironobu Arimoto
  • Publication number: 20010023162
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to prevent a lapping member from being cut by an edge of a slider when the edge is chamfered by lapping it with the lapping member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kanji Kobayashi, Masao Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20010023163
    Abstract: A scraping apparatus in which a scraping process is performed on a surface of a work to be machined to form recesses thereon by converging a laser beam outputted from a laser oscillator by a converging lens and irradiating the converged laser beam onto the work relatively moving to the laser beam for removing some portions by being melted or evaporated from the surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: KINBARA, ET AL
    Inventors: YOSHIHIDE KINBARA, HISAO TANAKA, AKARU USUI
  • Publication number: 20010023164
    Abstract: An end face polishing apparatus is provided in which polishing may be carried out with a constant load on a ferrule when polishing the end face of the ferrule. The end face polishing apparatus in which a rod-shaped member mounted on a jig plate by a polishing member mounted on the polishing plate which is rotatably and swingably supported to the apparatus body is polished in which the jig plate is supported in a state where rotation is restricted, and is provided with at least the mounting portion of the rod-shaped member movable in the vertical and lateral direction and is supported to the jig plate by the tip end of the rod-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Koji Minami, Katsuaki Kita
  • Publication number: 20010023165
    Abstract: A method of superfinishing the cylindrical surface of a part which is intended to be mounted in circular guides and to be moved in translation along its axis relative to the guides places an abrasive applicator wheel so that its axis is perpendicular to the axis of the part and its lateral surface is pressed against the cylindrical surface. The wheel is driven in rotation about its axis and the part and/or the wheel is driven simultaneously by movement in translation along the axis of the part and rotation about the axis at speeds such that the whole of the cylindrical surface is abrasively machined longitudinally along a helical trace whose successive turns overlap. Applications include steering racks for automobiles, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Richard Bonachera, Raymond Millot
  • Publication number: 20010023166
    Abstract: A carrier rinse unit comprising a plurality of nozzles prepositioned to eject a cleaning fluid against a surface of a wafer while the wafer is rotated within a wafer carrier. The prepositioned nozzles may be angled to spray a leading edge, a trailing edge, an outer edge of the wafer, or any desired point on the surface of the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Cuc Kim Huynh, Paul A. Manfredi, Thomas J. Martin, Douglas P. Nadeau, Joseph M. Weatherwax
  • Publication number: 20010023167
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus comprises a polishing table having a polishing surface, a top ring for holding a substrate and pressing a surface of the substrate against the polishing surface to polish the surface of the substrate, and at least one optical measuring device disposed adjacent to the outer peripheral portion of the polishing table and below the polishing surface of the polishing table for measuring the thickness of a layer formed on the surface of the substrate. The polishing apparatus further comprises at least one notch formed in the peripheral portion of the polishing table. The notch allows light emitted from the optical measuring device to pass therethrough and be incident on the surface of the substrate and allows light reflected from the surface of the substrate to pass therethrough and be incident on the optical measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Norio Kimura, Katsuya Okumura, Hiroyuki Yano
  • Publication number: 20010023168
    Abstract: An electric hand power grinder formed as an eccentric grinder has a grinding plate, a abrasive carrier provided on a lower side of the grinding plate and composed of a soft material, the abrasive carrier being plate-shaped and being fixed on the grinding plate by a surface adhesive means provided on a lower side of the grinding plate and producing a surface adhesive connection with the abrasive carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Steffen Wuensch, Werner Neubert, Karla Neubert, Kerstin Neubert
  • Publication number: 20010023169
    Abstract: A movable frame assembly to move a device for dressing a grinding wheel for the sharpening an ice skate blade. The device uses a housing surrounding a grinding wheel and movable frame with a swing arm. A dressing tool is mounted in the dresser swing arm and the dresser swing arm is rotatable between a storage position and an operating position. The movable frame assembly slides along rails to allow positioning of the dressing tool into the grinding wheel. Horizontally and vertically disposed bearings are positioned beside and under a rail with resiliently biased bearings are held against the top of the rail. The bearings help the rails of the movable frame move smoothly. The rails are spaced apart by yokes on the arm or a bar across the top of the dresser to prevent binding as the movable frame is slid for dressing the wheel. Adjustment of the rails is also provided for by adjustment slots at the back of the rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Glenn Sakcriska
  • Publication number: 20010023170
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for conveying and individually separating sausages or other elongate foodstuff products, wherein the sausages are fed by a conveyor device (46) to a separating apparatus (8) with a separating tool. A sensor (64) which is responsive to the conveyor device (4) and which preferably cooperates with the drive motor of the conveyor device (4) or with the movable conveyor elements (36) of the conveyor device (6) produces a signal which represents a measurement for a current position of a movable conveyor element (36) of the conveyor device (6) and thus for a current position of one or more constriction or twist-off locations in the chain of sausages, and that the signal is fed to the separating apparatus (8) in order to control the drive motor (13) in such a way that the severing tool separates the sausages in the region of a twist-off location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Meier, Klaus Hiller
  • Publication number: 20010023171
    Abstract: Device for skinning and cutting leg parts, in particular thighbones, of poultry, which portions are provided with a bone, comprising a frame and means arranged on the frame for skinning the leg part, as well as means arranged on the frame for cutting through the leg part along the bone, in which the device furthermore comprises means for conveying the leg part past the skinning means and after that past the cutting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Jacobus ELiza Hazenbroek, Hendrik De Bonte
  • Publication number: 20010023172
    Abstract: An environmental enclosure for nail technicians. The environmental enclosure includes a see-through box constructed of acrylic plastic or other suitable optical quality material. An interior fan sweeps air into the enclosure and ejects contaminated air, including vapors and dusts, from the enclosure, to a suitable discharge point, via gas tight ductwork. A see-through sloping top is oriented downward toward the nail technician to eliminate glare and to assure that good optics are attained when viewing nails through the top of the enclosure. A preferably solid insert panel which includes hand passageways is detachably affixable to the front, for further restricting airflow during desired operations. A plastic see-through air curtain is also detachably affixible to the front, for further restricting the flow of noxious gases and dusts. Additionally, a similar plastic see-through air curtain may be provided on the rear of the enclosure, to prevent noxious gases and dusts from escaping toward the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: REBECCA WINKELMAN
  • Publication number: 20010023173
    Abstract: A vent apparatus for cooperating with duct work associated with an exhaust fan to enable air to be exhausted from an interior room of a dwelling to the exterior environment. The vent apparatus includes a base member and a cover member releasably securable to the base member. The base member includes an attaching portion having a plurality of locking portions, while the cover member includes a plurality of flexible latching arm members which releasably engage the locking portions when the cover member is placed over the attaching portion. The attaching portion includes an enlarged opening which enables air exhausted from an interior room to be directed out between the base and cover members to the exterior atmosphere. The apparatus is particularly well-adapted to be used with vinyl or aluminum siding and is relatively inexpensive to construct, light-weight and easy to install. In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus includes a screen adapted to be secured to the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Charles E. Schiedegger, Mark T. MacLeod, Michael C. Clark
  • Publication number: 20010023174
    Abstract: The network (30) makes it possible to access exterior transmission networks (20). It is a hierarchical modular network, each pair of modules of different elaborateness (22, 23; 22, 25; 27, 23; 24, 25; 24, 22) being subject to a double upward and downward hierarchy. Each communication module comprises, in order to associate it with at least one other module of the network, a short-range internal interface configured so as to share the short-range medium with the interface of the said other module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Philippe Charbonnier
  • Publication number: 20010023175
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for reducing FM interference in an in-band on-channel digital audio broadcasting system. The method includes the steps of receiving a composite signal including a signal of interest and an interfering signal and normalizing the composite signal to produce a normalized composite signal. The composite signal is then multiplied by the complex conjugate of the normalized composite signal to produce a real signal. Then the real signal is filtered and the resulting filtered signal is multiplied by the normalized composite signal to produce an output signal. The adverse effects of the interfering signal in the output signal are reduced with respect to the magnitude of the signal of interest reducing FM interference in an in-band on-channel digital audio broadcasting system, thereby making it easier to detect the signal of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Brian William Kroeger, Jeffrey Scott Baird
  • Publication number: 20010023176
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring a radio frequency signal in a wireless station (1). In this method, radio frequency power is measured by means of testing equipment (6, 7, 12), which comprises at least a testing apparatus (7), a measuring head (6) and means (12) for transmitting electrical signals between said testing apparatus (7) and measuring head (6). The wireless station (1) comprises at least one radio part (8), a wiring board (2), an antenna (5) and switching means (3, 22). This test switch has at least an first position, in which the radio frequency signal is directed between the radio part (8) of the wireless station (1) and the antenna (5), and a second position, in which the radio frequency signal is directed between the radio part (8) of the wireless station (1) and the testing apparatus (7) via said switching means (3, 22) and the measuring head (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Olli Talvitie, Urpo Nokkonen, Jane Lehtil, Antti Hentinen, Risto Pirhonen, Jukka Eerikinen
  • Publication number: 20010023177
    Abstract: A voltage control variable attenuator takes a structure using a feedback loop which allows a signal modulated by a modulator to be attenuated based on a comparison result from a comparator. A power amplifier outputs the signal inputted thereto from the voltage control variable attenuator without amplifying the signal when no control signal is outputted from a control section, and amplifies a power of the signal inputted thereto from the voltage control variable attenuator to output it when the control signal is outputted from the control section. In a detection circuit, a change-over switch is provided which switches a detection voltage to be detected, depending on whether or not the control signal is outputted from the control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20010023178
    Abstract: A antenna of a mobile station is composed of a first antenna section having a helical section and a first contact and a rod-like second antenna section coupled at its one end to the first contact and having a second contact at the other end. When the second antenna section is housed in the casing, the first contact comes to face the internal surface of a feeding terminal with the result that it is capacitive-coupled with a matching circuit. When the second antenna section is pulled out of the casing, the second contact comes in direct contact with the feeding terminal with the result that it is directly connected to the matching circuit. Thereby, the band of resonant frequencies when the antenna is housed in the casing is widened and the antenna gain when the antenna is pulled out of the casing is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Norimichi Chiba, Hisao Iwasaki, Shuichi Sekine, Noriaki Odachi, Hiroyuki Dai
  • Publication number: 20010023179
    Abstract: An input device is disclosed wherein first and second rotary electric parts are operated by first and second operating members respectively. The input device can exhibit a larger number of functions than in the prior art and is suitable for use in a portable electronic device for which various functions are required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kisaburo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20010023180
    Abstract: A wireless communication device and system is described which can operate without requiring a subscription with the service provider. The communication device can be connected with a storage device, such as a chip card, which includes an identification number of the service provider and a replenishable credit balance that can be replenished offline or online using a banking affiliation of the user. The device can also include an electronic signature to facilitate secure transactions. The chip card may also be used as a conventional cash or credit card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Dietmar Sauer
  • Publication number: 20010023181
    Abstract: A method of monitoring the chargeable activities of a user in a mobile telecommunications network. The method comprises monitoring one or more conditions on which charging may be based and normalising the or each monitored condition so that the condition(s) can be compared against a standard value and/or used for calculating a charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Jarmo Juhani Savolainen
  • Publication number: 20010023182
    Abstract: A cellular phone is disclosed having a SPECIAL mode of operation. According to one embodiment, in the SPECIAL operating mode a channel of communication is automatically established upon receipt of an incoming call. Additional features enable muting of the ringing after the first ring, and sending a note to the caller that the phone in the SPECIAL mode. This allows a user in a meeting to receive a call and have time to exit the meeting to talk to the caller. According to another embodiment, is the special operating mode the phone blocks all incoming calls for a pre-programmed time period, and thereafter resumes normal operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Lanae E. Bach, Joseph Bach
  • Publication number: 20010023183
    Abstract: In telecommunications networks the problem with call forwarding restriction according to prior art is that access through call forwarding to numbers with ensuring an answer rather than possible further forwarding is not possible. The invention is based on the idea that call forwarding is allowed despite call forwarding restriction when the number to be used in forwarding the call meets special conditions set beforehand. The number is thus compared with the preset conditions and depending on the result of this comparison the call is either forwarded or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Keijo Palviainen, Matti Keskinen, Erkki Ojala, Petteri Yla-Outinen
  • Publication number: 20010023184
    Abstract: In receiving devices for mobile communication comprising at least one controller, an improvement of the power saving is proposed for the evaluation of paging messages divided over a plurality of paging message sub-blocks and for setting the receiving device to a power-saving mode when the paging message does not contain a predefined subscriber identity number, in that the controller compares a received paging message sub-block with a stored sample and suppresses the reception of further paging message sub-blocks of the same paging message block when the received paging message sub-block matches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Hans Kalveram, Arthur Tritthart
  • Publication number: 20010023185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for establishing a random access type connection and a subscriber terminal equipment (37 to 38) and a radio system operating in accordance with the method. The subscriber terminal equipment (37 to 38) establishes a connection to several base stations (33 to 36) with the method of the invention. The base stations (33 to 36) are selected before establishing the connection by deducing the quality of the connection by means of pilot signals and both uplink and downlink interferences. The subscriber terminal equipment (37 to 38) has a connection to several base stations (33 to 36) already at the initial stage of the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: HANNU HAKKINEN, SEPPO GRANLUND, SEPPO HAMALAINEN
  • Publication number: 20010023186
    Abstract: A system and method for performing base station initiated call setup is provided. A base station initiated call setup may be utilized to establish a test call, to deliver a packet data services call to a subscriber unit, or to reactivate a dormant packet call. The base station transmits a BS Service Request message to the mobile switching center, requesting initiation of the call. The mobile switching center will authorize the call if the call to be set up is directed to a subscriber unit located within the service area of the base station and if the service option to be used is authorized for the particular subscriber unit. The mobile switching center will allow or disallow the call depending on the state of the subscriber unit. The mobile switching center transmits a BS Service Response message to the base station, conveying the result of processing the BS Service Request message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Rajeev Krishnamurthi, Roy F. Quick, Bibhu Mohanty, Robert H. Kimball
  • Publication number: 20010023187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for managing a first and at least one second mobile-radio terminal (M1, M2) which are each able to set up connections over a mobile-radio telecommunications network (NET) to communication-partner terminals (KPM1, KPM2, KPM3), and also to a device for said process, a program module for a device for said process, a mobile-radio terminal for said process, a program module for a mobile-radio terminal for said process and an identification module for a mobile-radio terminal for said process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Michael Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20010023188
    Abstract: A transmission power control system is disclosed which can control the transmission level of a mobile station so that the reception condition in the reverse-link may be fixed without the necessity to increase the number of bits of a command for instruction to raise or lower the transmission level or without raising the transmission power of a command. A mobile station receives a transmission power control command transmitted over a forward-link from a base station for making a reception condition of a reverse-link at the base station substantially fixed. A reception quality estimation section of the mobile station estimates the reception quality of the transmission power control command, and a transmission power control section controls the transmission power with a control width varied in response to the reception quality estimated by the reception quality estimation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Masahiro Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20010023189
    Abstract: A method of automatically controlling a transmission power of a wireless communication apparatus which, in order to reduce power consumption of a wireless communication apparatus, adjusts the transmission power so as to eliminate waste power consumption as much as possible, thereby enabling communication to be carried out at an optimum transmission power, and a storage medium which stores the method are provided. At a start of communication, a wireless communication apparatus performs communication while setting the transmission power to the maximum value (S101). Each time when transmission succeeds, the transmission power is reduced by a predetermined amount (S106). When transmission fails as a result of the reduction by the predetermined amount, retransmission is carried out with increasing the transmission power by the predetermined amount, i.e., returning the transmission power to the immediately previous value (S107). The increased power is set as an optimum transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Akihiro Kajimura
  • Publication number: 20010023190
    Abstract: A transmission power control apparatus of a base station of a mobile communication network including: an up-converter for converting a received intermediate frequency (IF) signal to a radio frequency (RF) signal and outputting it; a high power amplifier for amplifying the power of the signal outputted from the up-converter; a coupling unit for receiving the signal from the high power amplifier, extracting only a signal of a necessary frequency band and outputting the extracted signal to an antenna; an attenuator for receiving the signal from the coupling unit, controlling the gain of the signal and outputting it to the upconverter; a comparing unit for comparing the gain control signal applied from the up-converter and the gain control signal inputted from an external source and controlling the attenuator; a controlling unit for providing the gain control signal inputted from the external source to the comparing unit; and an automatic gain controller for generating a gain control signal, control a signal gain
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Young Kim
  • Publication number: 20010023191
    Abstract: The communication system includes a mobile terminal, a plurality of base stations, and a base station controller. The mobile terminal transmits a transmission data frame. Each of the base stations receives the transmission data frame to output a reception data frame indicative of the transmission data frame. The base station controller receives the plurality of reception data frames. The base station controller includes a data storing unit, a data selecting unit, and a data outputting unit. The data storing unit storing one of the plurality of reception data frames as a storage data frame. The data selecting unit selects one of the storage data frame and newly arrived one of the reception data frames. The selected one is stored as the storage data frame. The outputting unit outputs the storage data frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Hiroya Endo
  • Publication number: 20010023192
    Abstract: An information search system includes a radio portable terminal having a speech communication function and packet communication function and a center for selectively performing speech communication and packet communication with the radio portable terminal. The center includes a speech control section, speech recognition section, information search section, speech conversion section, and packet control section. The speech control section performs speech communication with the radio portable terminal packet communication. The speech recognition section recognizes a speech signal received by the speech control section and sent from the radio portable terminal. The information search section searches for information on the basis of the speech information recognized by the speech recognition section. The speech conversion section converts the speech information of the information searched out by the information search section into a speech signal and outputs it to the speech control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hagane
  • Publication number: 20010023193
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a wireless telephony device is equipped with an optical image sensor, and a lens for imaging an object onto the sensor. The optical sensor permits a variety of useful functionality, including decoding of bar codes, watermarks, etc., from objects imaged by the sensor. One application of such a device is to interact with a remote computer system using data decoded from a bar code or watermark. For example, the device can be used to scan image data from an item depicted in a catalog, and then to transmit an order for the item from the catalog's on-line web store—using digital data decoded from the image to identify the desired item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Publication number: 20010023194
    Abstract: A portable communication apparatus (1) has a movable cover (16) with a liquid crystal display (19, 20) mounted thereon. The liquid crystal display (19, 20) is double-sided in at least one part (20), hence showing the information both from a front side and from a back side (21). This part of the display (20) is transmissive, and the rest of the display (19) is either reflective or transflective. The information is viewable through a window (22) in the cover (16) when the cover (16) is closed. As soon as the cover (16) changes positions from closed to opened, or from opened to closed, the information will be rotated 180°, so that the information will appear correctly. The portable communication apparatus has means (30, 31) and steps for the rotation of information, which automatically will be initiated, when the position of the cover (16) is detected by a controller (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Mats Pettersson, Erik Heded
  • Publication number: 20010023195
    Abstract: A cellular mobile telephone apparatus comprising a main body, and an alarm device which is provided separately from said main body, said main body including: receiving/transmitting means for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals between a base station; modulating/demodulating means for modulating and demodulating between the radio frequency signals, and a conversation signal and a control signal; telephone receiver means for reproducing audible conversation voice in response to the demodulated conversation signal from said modulating/demodulating means; telephone transmitting means for converting conversation voice into the conversation signal; means for controlling operation of said main body of said cellular mobile telephone apparatus in accordance with the control signal; and means for providing an alarm signal which includes an identification information and is transmitted through the radio frequency, when a call is terminated at said main body; and said alarm device including: receiving mean
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Tomihara, Yasuaki Takahara, Yoshihiro Kanomata
  • Publication number: 20010023196
    Abstract: A call tone output system for a foldable portable telephone set having a hinge to be unfolded and folded is disclosed. The call tone output system comprises a detector 14 for detecting the unfolding and folding of the hinge, and a tone output control unit (11 and 20) for causing tone output from a call tone output unit 8, which outputs a call tone at the time of a call arrival, when a call arrives in the folded state of the hinge, and from a receiver, which outputs a reception tone, when the hinge is unfolded from the folded state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20010023197
    Abstract: Sound source pulses are output to a sound drive circuit based on first to fourth sound source data of a ringer melody. Thus, the sound drive circuit drives a speaker based on the sound source pulses. As a result, the ringer melody including first to fourth melodic lines is output from the speaker. One melodic line is selected from the first to fourth melodic lines, and a melodic line pulse is outputted to a vibration drive circuit based on the sound source data of the selected melodic line. As a result, the vibration drive circuit drives a vibrator based on the melodic line pulse, so that the vibrator vibrates based on the selected melodic line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Shinji Shibata
  • Publication number: 20010023198
    Abstract: A portable telephone apparatus with a battery alarm function is disclosed wherein consumption of a battery apparatus through use of an additional function other than a talking function can be prevented with certainty to assure a lowest operation voltage for the talking function and multiple functions are available. The portable telephone apparatus includes a rechargeable battery, and a battery supervision section. The battery supervision section includes a voltage detection section for supervising and detecting a voltage of the battery under the control of a control section, and an alarming section for issuing a lowest operation voltage level alarm under the control of the control section when the detected voltage drops to a lowest operation voltage level with which a talking function of the portable telephone apparatus can operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Muto
  • Publication number: 20010023199
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for operating a video poker machine which includes the steps of populating a primary poker hand with a plurality of playing cards, identifying discard cards to be discarded from the populated primary poker hand, populating a secondary poker hand with the discard cards, populating the primary poker hand to replace the discard cards discarded therefrom, thereby forming a final primary poker hand, and determining a payout based at least upon the playing cards in the final primary poker hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Jay S. Walker, James A. Jorasch, Magdalena Mik, Jason Krantz
  • Publication number: 20010023200
    Abstract: A data creation device for image display which generates data for image display to display a plurality of target images each having a common display range on a display device, comprises: a first recording section to store a palette data which includes a plurality of color palettes and a code information, in which each of the plurality of color palettes includes a plurality of color informations, the code information includes a plurality of codes, and one of the plurality of codes specifies at least one color information of the plurality of color informations included in each of the plurality of color palettes; a second memory section to store an image data including the plurality of target images, in which the image data includes a the plurality of pixels, a position information concerns with a position of each of the plurality of pixels, one of the plurality of codes corresponds to the position information, and a palette information decides which palette is used among the plurality of palettes; and a drawing
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Kentaro Horikawa, Tetsunori Saito
  • Publication number: 20010023201
    Abstract: While a game is being replayed, an image of the game is displayed in combination with a special effect. When the game is replayed, an image processing unit refers to an instruction-to-processing table of generated images based on the number of times that the R1 button, the R2 button, the L1 button are pressed and image processing modes, selects a certain image processing mode, and outputs a processed image in the selected image processing mode to a display monitor. When a firework object is processed, it is possible to display a more fantastic wirework image. When the weather of a replayed image is changed from fair to rain or snow, it is possible to display a more fantastic image. An instruction from a manual controller can be entered interactively when the game is replayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Katsuyuki Kanetaka
  • Publication number: 20010023202
    Abstract: A video game apparatus in which a specified event is executed in a game space displayed on a monitor, and a plurality of background sounds having different attributes are outputted at a specified output ratio from a plurality of sound output units spaced apart from each other, comprising: a recording unit for storing the plurality of background sounds as background sound data, and a background sound control unit for setting the output ratio of the background sounds having different attributes to be output from the sound output units according to a viewing point and a viewing direction in the game space while reading the background sound data from the recording unit and outputting them from the plurality of sound output units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: KONAMI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Okubo
  • Publication number: 20010023203
    Abstract: This present invention relates to a button control for use in game controllers. When the button is pressed down, the angle and magnitude of the force of each depression will determine the amount of contact between the conducting jell and the resistor strip or the conducting tracks located on the printed circuit board and thereby determine the magnitude of the output signals so as to gain greater game control. Further, when said resistor strip is made a cut-open, discontinuous structure, then when the conducting jell begins to press on the resistor strip, the resistance changes from infinite resistance to maximum resistance to facilitate reading of button control status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Cheng Chiu-Hao
  • Publication number: 20010023204
    Abstract: The pushing of a simple ON/OFF switch or the continuous pushing thereof for an output representation is made an easier-to-use interface for users of a controller connectable to an entertainment system. The recording medium has a program that performs processing based on instructions depending on the duration of pushing of the controller by the user. Alternately, the program performs processing based on instructions depending on the magnitude of the output value of the controller. Moreover, the computer is provided with means of determining the duration of the pressure sensed by the pressure-sensitive unit of the controller, means of selecting and entering an instruction corresponding to the duration of pressure by the user, and means of executing a process based on the instruction entered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Komata