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20150152934 | BI-DIRECTIONAL SHOCK ABSORBING DEVICE - A bidirectional shock absorber includes a cylinder housing including a liquid chamber, a shock-absorbing mechanism located inside the liquid chamber and supported by a rod sticking out of the cylinder housing. The shock-absorbing mechanism includes a pair of pistons located in the liquid chamber and attached to the rod on the respective sides of a liquid storage chamber constituting an accumulator, resistance paths formed between an outer circumferential surface of the pistons and an inner circumferential surface of a piston chamber, to apply flow resistance to the liquid, and unidirectional flow paths formed along the respective pistons and configured to block the liquid flow toward the liquid storage chamber when the corresponding piston is pressed toward the piston chamber, but to permit the liquid to flow in the opposite direction. | 06-04-2015 |
20150198212 | DOUBLE-ROD TYPE SHOCK ABSORBER - A double-rod type shock absorber includes a rod, first and second pistons held by the rod, first and second piston chambers disposed on an outer side of the first and second pistons, a liquid storage chamber between the first piston and the second piston, a flow path gap formed between an outer peripheral surface of the first and second pistons and an inner peripheral surface of the liquid chamber, and first and second unidirectional flow paths which connect the first and second piston chambers with the liquid storage chamber, wherein, during reciprocating motion of the rod, the unidirectional flow path located on a front side in a movement direction of the rod is closed, and the unidirectional flow path located on a back side in the movement direction of the rod is opened. | 07-16-2015 |
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20090001636 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A cylinder chamber filled with a liquid, a piston disposed inside the cylinder chamber, a piston rod connected to the piston, and an accumulator allowing the piston rod to generate a damping force by receiving the liquid from a compression side of the cylinder chamber are included, and on an internal periphery of the cylinder chamber, one line of a helical damping groove is formed within a stroke range of the piston, a groove width of the damping groove is constant over the entire length of the damping groove, a depth of the damping groove gradually decreases along a spiral toward the direction in which the piston rod is pushed in, and a length of the piston in a direction along the axis line is smaller than a pitch of the damping groove. | 01-01-2009 |
20120247891 | HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBER - Provided is a shock absorber enabling stable stop by damping at a terminal of a stroke and covering demanded impact-absorbing models. The shock absorber has a piston chamber, a start part for piston movement, a decelerating part, and an end part for stopping the piston. The start part forms a curve to provide a diameter larger than a virtual tapered surface formed within a stroke range of the piston and to be outward to a central axis of the piston chamber. In the decelerating part, a variation of diameter reduction is increased with the result that the diameter becomes smaller than the tapered surface, and a curve is formed so the change in variation of diameter reduction reaches the maximum variation point and turns negative. In the end part, the variation of diameter reduction is decreased with the result that a curve which enables piston stopping by damping is formed. | 10-04-2012 |
20130015027 | HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBERAANM Miyasato; EikoAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Miyasato; Eiko Tsukubamirai-shi JPAANM Hiroki; AkiraAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Hiroki; Akira Tsukubamirai-shi JPAANM Kaneko; JunyaAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Kaneko; Junya Tsukubamirai-shi JPAANM Takakuwa; YoujiAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Takakuwa; Youji Tsukubamirai-shi JPAANM Monden; KengoAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Monden; Kengo Tsukubamirai-shi JPAANM Ishikawa; MasayukiAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Ishikawa; Masayuki Tsukubamirai-shi JPAANM Kessoku; MarikoAACI Tsukubamirai-shiAACO JPAAGP Kessoku; Mariko Tsukubamirai-shi JP - A hydraulic shock absorber that can reduce outflow amount of oil by maximally removing an oil film attached to an outer periphery of a rod and that can achieve securement of high slidability between the rod and a rod packing and prevention of wear of the rod packing. A rod packing interposed between an outer periphery of a rod and an inner periphery of a rod-side end wall includes a first lip for scrapping off an oil film attached to the outer periphery of the rod, and a ring-shaped grease holding member for supplying holding grease to the outer periphery of the rod. The grease holding member is in contact with the outer periphery of the rod at a position closer to a rod distal end than the first lip. | 01-17-2013 |
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20140184395 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a communication module and an assignment module. The communication module is configured to receive a profile in which a key for executing a command is associated with the command, and a command receivable by a reception device. The assignment module is configured to assign the receivable command and the key based on the profile. | 07-03-2014 |
20140379941 | RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a receiving device configured to receive a stream transmitted from a transmitting device connected by an MHL cable in compliance with an MHL standard, including, two or more HDMI terminals, to which the MHL cable is connected, two or more MHL processors, each configured to process signals of the stream input to the HDMI terminals in compliance with an MHL standard, and a switch configured to switch connection between the terminals and one of the MHL processors based on whether the MHL cable is connected thereto. | 12-25-2014 |
20150019761 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a first controller is connected to one of a plurality of terminals. A detector is configured to detect a connection between each of the plurality of terminals and an MHL cable. A power supply module supplies electric power to a first connected apparatus connected via a first MHL cable in response to a first connection detection between a first terminal and the first MHL cable. A second controller is configured to connect the first terminal and the first controller, in response to the first connection detection, and to connect a second terminal and the first controller, when a signal is not received from the first connected apparatus via the first terminal at a timing of a second connection detection between the second terminal and a second MHL cable. | 01-15-2015 |
20150029400 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, A terminal is configured to connect a cable from a chargeable external apparatus. A power supply module is configured to supply electric power to the external apparatus via the terminal. A detector is configured to detect a power supply status by the power supply module. A determination module configured to determine charging completion of the external apparatus based on the power supply status. An output module configured to output the charging completion based on the charging completion determination result. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032912 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first terminal, a power supply module, a detector, a processor and an output module. The first terminal is configured to connect a cable from a chargeable first external apparatus. The power supply module is configured to supply electric power to the first external apparatus via the first terminal. The detector is configured to detect a power supply status of the power supply module. The processor configured to process first input information from the first external apparatus via the first terminal. The output module is configured to output first unique information of the first external apparatus included in the first input information, and the power supply status detected by the detector. | 01-29-2015 |
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20130006088 | PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS, PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING METHOD - An optical property distribution, such as an absorption coefficient of the inside of a subject, is highly precisely acquired. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006089 | PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS, PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A position of a light absorber existing in a subject and an initial sound pressure of an acoustic wave generated at the light absorber are calculated from an electric signal converted from the received acoustic wave generated in response to irradiation of the subject with light. An optical absorption coefficient and an optical scattering coefficient of the subject are calculated using the position of the light absorber and the initial sound pressure of the acoustic wave generated at the position of the light absorber. A light quantity distribution in the subject is calculated using the optical absorption coefficient and the optical scattering coefficient of the subject. An optical absorption coefficient distribution in the subject is calculated using the light quantity distribution in the subject and an initial sound pressure distribution in the subject obtained from the electric signal. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006090 | PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING METHOD - A photoacoustic imaging apparatus includes holding members configured to hold a subject, an acoustic wave conversion unit configured to receive an acoustic wave generated by irradiating the subject, which is held by the holding members, with light from a light source and convert the acoustic wave into an electric signal, a processing unit configured to generate image data from the electric signal, and an imaging unit configured to capture an optical pattern generated on a light diffusion member by emitting the light to the light diffusion member arranged on a surface of a side where the subject is irradiated with the light in the holding members where the holding members contact the subject in holding the subject, wherein the processing unit calculates light absorption coefficient distribution in the subject based on the optical pattern captured by the imaging unit and the electric signal acquired by the acoustic wave conversion unit. | 01-03-2013 |
20130035570 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION ON SUBJECT - In an apparatus configured to acquire subject information, a light source is capable of generating light with a first wavelength and alight with a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, an acoustic wave detection unit detects a photoacoustic wave generated by illuminating a subject with light and output a resultant detection signal, and a signal processing unit acquires subject information based on a first detection signal output by the acoustic wave detection unit when the subject is illuminated with the light with the first wavelength and a second detection signal output by the acoustic wave detection unit when the subject is illuminated with the light with the second wavelength. An effective attenuation coefficient of the subject at the first wavelength is equal to an effective attenuation coefficient of the subject at the second wavelength. | 02-07-2013 |
20130085371 | ACOUSTIC WAVE ACQUIRING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an acoustic wave acquiring apparatus including: a holding plate configured to hold an object via acoustic matching agent; an acoustic wave detector configured to receive an acoustic wave generated from the object irradiated with light from a light source and convert the acoustic wave to an electric signal; and a processor configured to generate characteristic information of the inside of the object by using the electric signal. In the acoustic wave acquiring apparatus, the holding plate is subjected to hydrophilic process or the acoustic matching agent contains surfactant. | 04-04-2013 |
20130197343 | SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION REGARDING SUBJECT - A subject information obtaining apparatus sets certain sensitive regions corresponding to a plurality of acoustic wave detection elements on the basis of a sensitivity distribution of the plurality of acoustic wave detection elements, obtains initial sound pressure in a region of interest without using a detection signal corresponding to the region of interest obtained by an acoustic wave detection element whose certain sensitive region does not include the region of interest, obtains a value of integrated light intensity in the region of interest on the basis of the obtained initial sound pressure, and obtains an optical characteristic value in the region of interest using the obtained initial sound pressure and the value of the integrated light intensity. | 08-01-2013 |
20130267820 | SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD - A subject information obtaining apparatus includes a plurality of acoustic wave detection elements, each of which detects a photoacoustic wave generated when a subject is irradiated with light and outputs a detection signal, an initial-sound-pressure obtaining unit that obtains an initial sound pressure in a region of interest in the subject on the basis of the detection signals, a light-intensity obtaining unit that obtains a corrected light intensity in the region of interest on the basis of weighting coefficients based on sensitivity distributions of the acoustic wave detection elements and a light intensity of the light with which the region of interest is irradiated, and an optical-characteristic-value obtaining unit that obtains an optical characteristic value in the region of interest on the basis of the initial sound pressure and the corrected light intensity. | 10-10-2013 |
20140036636 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD - Employed is an object information acquiring apparatus including an irradiation unit irradiating an object with light; a detection unit including a plurality of elements each obtaining an acoustic wave generated from the object and converting the acoustic wave into a detection signal; a detection unit moving mechanism moving the detection unit to the object relatively; an adding unit selecting, from detection signals converted from acoustic waves obtained by the plurality of elements at respective positions as the detection unit is moved, detection signals converted from acoustic waves obtained from an identical position on the object, and adding together these detection signals to output a resultant summed signal; an initial sound pressure computing unit computing an initial sound pressure of a region of interest from the summed signal; a light quantity computing unit computing a quantity of light of the region of interest. | 02-06-2014 |
20140296690 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD - An object information acquiring apparatus comprises a light source; an acoustic detecting unit configured to detect an acoustic wave generated from an object to which light from the light source is irradiated; and a processing unit configured to acquire characteristic information on the inside of the object based on the acoustic wave and correct the characteristic information using an absorption coefficient of a background region inside the object. | 10-02-2014 |
20150104091 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A three-dimensional image captured by imaging a subject using a first imaging device is acquired. A two-dimensional image captured by imaging a surface of the subject using a second imaging device is acquired. Information representing the surface position of the subject is acquired from the three-dimensional image. A projection image in a case where seeing the three-dimensional image from the viewpoint of the second imaging device is generated based on the information representing the surface position. The three-dimensional image is aligned with the two-dimensional image with respect to the subject using the projection image and the two-dimensional image. | 04-16-2015 |
20150228093 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image by imaging an object using a first imaging apparatus, a second image by imaging the object using a second imaging apparatus, a third image by imaging the object using an image capturing unit whose position is associated with the second imaging apparatus; and an alignment unit configured to align the object in the first image with the object in the second image so that observation information of the object in the first image matches observation information of the object in the third image. | 08-13-2015 |
20150238090 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS - An object information acquiring apparatus comprises an irradiating unit which irradiates light on an object; a holding member which includes a light-absorbing member whose optical characteristics with respect to irradiated light are known and which holds the object; a detector which detects acoustic waves generated by tissue in the object and the light-absorbing member due to light irradiation; and a computing unit which calculates optical characteristics of the tissue in the object and the light-absorbing member by using the detected acoustic waves and which corrects the optical characteristics of the tissue in the object by using the calculated optical characteristics of the light-absorbing member and the known optical characteristics. | 08-27-2015 |
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20130132087 | AUDIO INTERFACE - Methods, systems, and apparatus are generally described for providing an audio interface. | 05-23-2013 |
20140188910 | DETERMINING RELIABILITY OF ONLINE POST - Technologies are generally described for determining a reliability of an online post. In some examples, a method may include identifying from an online post at least one word associated with a place, identifying a location from which the online post was posted, and determining a reliability of the online post based at least in part on the identified word associated with the place and the identified location from which the online post was posted. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195537 | CONTENT PROVIDING TECHNIQUES - Techniques for content providing and classifying users based on content search conditions are generally described. In some examples, the techniques may be embodied in apparatus, systems, and methods. An example content providing apparatus may include a receiving unit, a classifying unit, a content acquisition unit, and a determining unit. The receiving unit may be configured to receive content search conditions and the classifying unit may be configured to classify users into types according to the search conditions. The content acquisition unit may be configured to acquire content that includes non-text data based on the received search conditions and the determining unit may be configured to evaluate acquired content to identify data of the non-text data in the acquired content that is firstly processed to output based on the user type. | 07-10-2014 |
20160048714 | DATA COLLECTION SCHEME - Technologies are generally described for a data collection scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of an electronic device may include receiving a data submission request from a posting device; determining that data corresponding to the data submission request is stored in a memory of the electronic device; and notifying a user of the electronic device of the data submission request. | 02-18-2016 |