Patents
Literature
Hiro is an intelligent assistant for R&D personnel, combined with Patent DNA, to facilitate innovative research.
Hiro

69results about How to "Complicated work" patented technology

Apparatus and method for an electric power supply

A traction power source for electric vehicles in a single unit. Specifically, traction power source integrates several functions, such as the battery and inverter. In addition, further functionalities that are traditionally in separate units can be integrated into the system and efficiently performed by the same electronics, such as battery management and thermal management.
Owner:DR ING H C F PORSCHE AG

Dual arm robot

The dual arm robot includes a first arm including a first hand, a first visual sensor and a first force sensor, and a second arm including a second hand, a second visual sensor and a second force sensor, uses each visual sensor to detect positions of a lens barrel and a fixed barrel to hold and convey them to a central assembling area, uses the first visual sensor to measure a position of a flexible printed circuits to insert the flexible printed circuits into the fixed barrel, and uses outputs of the force sensors to fit and assemble the fixed barrel onto the lens barrel under force control. The dual arm robot converts a position coordinate of a workpiece detected by each visual sensor to a robot coordinate to calculate a trajectory of each hand and drive each arm, to thereby realize cooperative operation of the two arms.
Owner:CANON KK

Management device and method of print system for updating software programs installed in the print system

This invention provides a management device and method for managing a update of software programs having functionally close relations each other installed in a print system, such as a printer driver and a control program. In the print system comprising a host computer and a printer for receiving and printing a print job from the host computer, provided is adaptability information indicative of adaptability between control programs and printer drivers in several versions. With reference to the adaptability information, it is determined that adaptability between the printer driver and the control program which have already been installed, and newer versions of printer driver and the control program. When those software programs have the adaptability therebetween, the printer driver and the control program which have already been installed are updated to have the newer versions.
Owner:MINOLTA CO LTD

Turbine shroud segment

A shroud segment for being incorporated in a gas turbine engine having a turbine case and a rear turbine case connected with a rear end of the turbine case so as to suppress influence of hot combustion gas on the turbine case and the rear turbine case, is provided with a back plate formed in an arc shape and supported by the turbine case, a touching member integrally formed on an inner surface of the back plate for touching with a rotating turbine blade; and a jet shield extended from a rear end of the back plate and slanted radially inward so as to shield the rear turbine case from a jet of the hot combustion gas.
Owner:IHI CORP

Information processing system for manufacturing building material, building material manufacturing method and facility, and building information circulating system

An information processing system for producing a building material comprises a design drawing generating means for generating the design drawing information of an objective building, a list generating means for generating the list information of the members used for the objective building, and a member production control means for controlling the production of the members used for the objective building, based on the list information obtained by the list generating means.
Owner:NIPPON STEEL CORP +1

Method for producing fullerenes

A hydrocarbon fuel is either imperfectly combusted or thermally decomposed in a reactor 11, thereby producing a high-temperature gas flow containing fullerenes and soot. A mixture of the fullerenes and soot is collected from the gas flow using a filtering unit 12 which includes a heat-resistant filtering member made of either a porous ceramic material or a porous metal material. The fullerenes are collected from the mixture by usual means. These processes according to the method of the present invention make it possible to produce a large amount of fullerenes.
Owner:FRONTIER CARBON CORP

Hopper-type texture spray apparatus and hopper assembly therefor

A hopper assembly for a hopper-type texture spray gun applicator apparatus; the hopper assembly including a hopper reservoir housing such as an elongated tubular housing having a specific length to diameter (L / D) ratio. The hopper assembly is adapted for being removably connected to a spraying apparatus such as a spray gun which is coupled to a pressure source such as an air compressor for atomizing texture material contained in the hopper reservoir housing of the hopper assembly. The hopper assembly, the spray gun and the air pressure source may be used together to comprise a hopper-type texture spray gun applicator adapted for spraying texture material on work surfaces such as interior walls, floors and ceilings of a building.
Owner:VALDEZ ABEL

Method of detecting attracting force between substrates, and near-field exposure method and apparatus

Disclosed is a method of detecting an attraction force between substrates, and a near-field exposure method and apparatus, wherein, in the attraction force detecting method, an elastically deformable first substrate is intimately contacted to a second substrate which is not elastically deformable as compared with the first substrate and, when the first and second substrates so contacted are separated from each other, an attraction force acting between the first and second substrates is detected. Specifically, the includes at least one of (i) a step for detecting an attraction force acting between the first and second substrates on the basis of a difference between (a) a physical quantity necessary for intimately contacting the first substrate to the second substrate and (b) a physical quantity necessary for separating the first substrate from the second substrate, and (ii) a step of detecting an attraction force acting between the first and second substrates on the basis of an amount of deformation of the first substrate relative to the second substrate.
Owner:CANON KK

Place management apparatus and place management method

As an embodiment of the present invention, a place management system reads attributes of commodities from RFID-tags attached to the respective commodities located in a spatial area of a predetermined place, and determines an attribute of the place from the attributes read. The place management system is also able to store attribute inference rule information for determining the attribute of the place from the attribute information of commodities and to determine the attribute of the place on the basis of the attribute inference rule information from the attributes of the commodities recognized. Furthermore, the place management system has a place movement determiner for determining a movement of a place, and the place movement determiner is able to appropriately determine the movement when the place moves.
Owner:NTT DOCOMO INC

Facility management system using geographic information system

A facility management system has a facility GIS database configured with electronic map data and facility management GIS data containing data for identifying a location and a form of a facility located along a railway or a road, a facility register database configured to manage a name of a rail or a road, a kilometer post and attribute information in association with one another, and a kilometer post information management section configured to manage coordinate data of the facility on the general map and the kilometer post in association with each other. When searching for attribute information from the facility register database, the kilometer post information management section is referred to obtain kilometer post information by using the coordinate data of the facility and the attribute information of the facility is searched from the facility register database by using the kilometer post information.
Owner:JR EAST CONSULTANTS

Surveillance camera

A surveillance camera comprises a base mounted on a wall, an imaging lens mounted on the base via an imaging lens support member and a switchable mounting unit, and a rotation drive device driving the imaging lens so as to rotate in a panning direction. The switchable mounting unit selects either a first posture wherein a seating mount of the base, making contact with the wall, is approximately perpendicular to an axis of panning rotation of the imaging lens or a second posture wherein the seating mount is approximately parallel to the axis of panning rotation, and mounts the imaging lens support member on the base.
Owner:SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD

Method of installing prefabricated, segment concrete filled tube members

A method of installing segmental concrete filled tube members. The prefabricated segmental concrete filled tube member has a hollow pipe filled therein with concrete, and a connection flange shaped in a ring radially extending from the peripheries of both ends of the pipe, wherein the segmental concrete filled tube member is integrally connected with another adjacent segmental concrete filled tube member by the connection flange.
Owner:DAEWOO ENG & CONSTR CO LTD

Fracture detection system and method for dumbbell pin of scraper conveyor

A fracture detection system and method for a dumbbell pin of a scraper conveyor. The system comprises a scraper conveyor, a wireless ranging apparatus (2), a wireless communication device, a support controller and a monitoring center. The wireless ranging apparatus (2) is mounted on a ramp plate ledge of a scraper conveyor chute (1), and has a laser range finder and a reflection target plate (24) for detecting a relative displacement between any two adjacent chutes. The wireless communication device realizes communication between the wireless ranging apparatus (2) and the support controller, and transmits the displacement of the laser range finder to the support controller in a wireless transmission manner. The support controller controls an action of the scraper conveyor chute (1). A monitoring center is electrically connected to the support controller, and can perform storage processing on relative displacement data of any adjacent chutes. In the method, by taking a relative displacement value between adjacent chutes as a reference, whether a fracture fault occurs in a dumbbell pin is judged, the position of the fractured dumbbell pin can be accurately determined, and a support controller controls a chute action, thereby having a high promotion and usage value.
Owner:CHINA UNIV OF MINING & TECH

Image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium

There is provided an image processing device including a synthesis processing portion configured to perform a synthesis process of performing addition on pixels including a region of a subject included in an input image and terminate the synthesis process on the basis of a detection result of a subject detection portion which detects the subject of the input image.
Owner:SONY CORP

Monitoring simulating device, method, and program

A design data storage unit stores design data on constituent element constituting a computer system to be monitored. A monitoring condition storage unit stores a monitoring a monitoring condition of abnormal detection of the object to be monitored and error information to be outputted when the object meets the monitoring condition. A constituent component false failure setting unit makes a setting to cause the constituent elements in the design data to falsely fail one by one. A monitoring condition check unit checks if each monitoring condition is met when one constituent element is set in a failed state by instructing a network examining unit to examine the design data and extracts all the error information relevant to the met monitoring conditions. According to the results, information on the correspondence between the falsely failed constituent elements and all extracted error information is stored in a monitoring simulation result storage unit.
Owner:FUJITSU LTD

Plate-shaped heating panel in which connecting members are fastened by bolts and nuts

Disclosed herein is a plate-shaped heating panel having connecting members fastened to each other by means of bolts and nuts. The heating panel comprises upper and lower plates integrally formed to face each other so as to form an inner fluid pathway in which heating water flows, a plurality of connecting members, each symmetrically extending from the upper and lower plates toward the lower and upper plates, respectively, and connecting the upper and lower plates to each other, the inner fluid pathway formed inside of the plate by means of the plurality of connecting members, and two fluid communication portions for supplying and discharging the heating water, wherein one or more connecting members adjacent to the fluid communication portions are punctured such that punctured portions of the connecting members are fastened to each other by means of bolts and nuts. Accordingly, a bonding strength of the heating panel is enhanced, and even though the crack is generated, the crack is forced to change in its progressing direction and is prevented from spreading, thereby enhancing the pressure resistance of the heating panel.
Owner:LG CHEM LTD

Wire harness

A wire harness includes a metal pipe; a high-voltage conductive path; and another conductive path. Another conductive path is configured as an unshielded electric wire. The high-voltage conductive path includes a high-voltage circuit; a shielding member; and an insulating member.
Owner:YAZAKI CORP

Method of manufacturing reinforcing cloth of sheet pad and apparatus therefor

A method of manufacturing a reinforcing cloth of a sheet pad includes: fixing a sheet on a mold having an outer shape substantially identical to a shape of the reinforcing cloth and provided with a plurality of air holes interconnecting an internal space with an outer surface; forming a closed space between the mold and a cover member by covering the sheet fixed on the mold with the cover member; heating the sheet; shaping the heated sheet into a shape following the outer shape of the mold by exhausting air from the closed space through the air holes; and demolding the sheet from the mold after removing the cover member.
Owner:MOLD TECHN OFFICE +1

Dual arm robot

The dual arm robot includes a first arm including a first hand, a first visual sensor and a first force sensor, and a second arm including a second hand, a second visual sensor and a second force sensor, uses each visual sensor to detect positions of a lens barrel and a fixed barrel to hold and convey them to a central assembling area, uses the first visual sensor to measure a position of a flexible printed circuits to insert the flexible printed circuits into the fixed barrel, and uses outputs of the force sensors to fit and assemble the fixed barrel onto the lens barrel under force control. The dual arm robot converts a position coordinate of a workpiece detected by each visual sensor to a robot coordinate to calculate a trajectory of each hand and drive each arm, to thereby realize cooperative operation of the two arms.
Owner:CANON KK

Method of connecting electric cable to connector terminal and compression-molding die

A method of connecting an electric cable to a connector terminal includes arranging a connector terminal in a lower die so that an end portion of the electric cable in which a core wire is exposed from an outer cover is arranged in a barrel portion of the connector terminal, pressing a crimper to the barrel portion to crimp the barrel portion, overlapping the lower die with an upper die to form an injection space around the barrel portion and the end portion of the electric cable, and injecting a resin in an injection space, thereby forming a resin mold that covers and waterproofs the barrel portion and the end portion of the electric cable.
Owner:YAZAKI CORP

Camera calibration device, camera calibration method, and camera calibration program

A technique is disclosed for easily performing calibration of a camera by using a MMS. A calibration device for a camera that is configured to photograph the sun includes an in-image sun position identifying unit 115, a sun position estimating unit 113, and a camera attitude calculating unit 116. The in-image sun position identifying unit 115 identifies a position of the sun in an image that is photographed by the camera. The sun position estimating unit 113 estimates a position of the sun in the image based on orbital information of the sun. The camera attitude calculating unit 116 calculates attitude of the camera based on differences between identified positions and the estimated positions of the sun in the images.
Owner:KK TOPCON

Lens drive device, camera module, and camera-mounting device

Provided is a lens drive device that, using drive force from a voice coil motor, automatically carries out focusing by moving an autofocus movable unit with respect to an autofocus fixed unit in the direction of an optical axis. The lens drive unit is provided with a position detection unit that is disposed with an intervening space on the image formation side of the autofocus movable unit in the direction of the optical axis and that is for emitting light toward the autofocus movable unit, receiving reflected light that has been reflected by the autofocus movable unit, and detecting the position of the autofocus movable unit in the direction of the optical axis on the basis of the received light intensity. Part of the member displaced along with the autofocus movable unit functions as a reflective plate for reflecting light emitted from the position detection unit.
Owner:MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO LTD

Plate-shaped heating panel in which connecting members are fastened by resin

Disclosed herein is a plate-shaped heating panel having connecting members fastened to each other by means of resin. The heating panel comprises upper and lower plates integrally formed to face each other so as to form an inner fluid pathway in which heating water flows, a plurality of connecting members, each symmetrically extending from the upper and lower plates toward the lower and upper plates, respectively, and connecting the upper and lower plates to each other, the inner fluid pathway formed at an inside of the plate by means of the plurality of connecting members, and two fluid communication portions for supplying and discharging the heating water, wherein one or more connecting members adjacent to the fluid communication portions are punctured to form holes. The holes are filled with a melted plastic resin, and the melted plastic resin is integrated with the connecting members by pressing. Accordingly, the inlets and outlets of the heating panel subjected to the concentrated stress are reinforced by means of the plastic resin, so that even though the crack is generated, the crack is forced to change in its progressing direction and is prevented from spreading, thereby enhancing the pressure resistance of the heating panel.
Owner:LG CHEM LTD

Information Processing System for Producing Building Material, Building Material Production Method and Production Equipment, and Building Information Distribution System

An information processing system for producing a building material has a design drawing generator, a list generator and a member production controller. The design drawing generator generates design drawing information of an objective building. The list generator generates list information of the members used for the objective building. The member production controller controls the production of the members used for the objective building, based on the list information.
Owner:HASHIMOTO SHINICHIRO +6

Monitoring simulating device, method, and program

A design data storage unit stores design data of constituent elements constituting a computer system to be monitored. A monitoring condition storage unit stores monitoring conditions of abnormal detection of the object to be monitored and error information to be outputted when the object meets particular monitoring conditions. A constituent component simulated failure setting unit causes the constituent elements in the design data to simulate failure one by one. A monitoring condition check unit checks if each monitoring condition is met when one constituent element is set in a failed state by instructing a network examining unit to examine the design data and extracts all the error information relevant to the met monitoring conditions. According to the results, information on the correspondence between the failed constituent elements and all extracted error information is stored in a monitoring simulation result storage unit.
Owner:FUJITSU LTD
Who we serve
  • R&D Engineer
  • R&D Manager
  • IP Professional
Why Patsnap Eureka
  • Industry Leading Data Capabilities
  • Powerful AI technology
  • Patent DNA Extraction
Social media
Patsnap Eureka Blog
Learn More
PatSnap group products