Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Seiko Precision Inc.

Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Seikosha Co., Ltd.

Nkk Corporation

Shinichi Endo

Satoshi Nakajima

Satoshi Hayasaka

Yoichi Seki

Kenichi Hirose

Yoshiyuki Iwamatsu

Toshiaki Tsubone

Tomoyuki Habu

Minoru Watanabe

Kenji Masuzawa

Harry Haryadi

Kei Baba

Tatsuo Takechi

Hiroyuki Saito

Akira Ito

Hajime Oda

Michio Kawai

Toshiaki Hirai

Atsushi Takami

Teruyo Hayakawa

Takuma Takahashi

Hiroki Horibe

Isamu Ishii

Makoto Wasamoto

Yoshihisa Kurosawa

Satoru Udagawa

Jun Miyata

Yukihiko Okamoto

Ryo Komatsu

Masahisa Tanabe

Takuya Sugita

Daisuke Washio

Sho Taguchi

Yuta Hoshikawa

Hiroki Nagakusa

A contact deciding apparatus includes: reference signal creating units that create first and second reference signals, with a sine wave, that have the same frequency as a detection signal output from a sensor unit, and are respectively in phase with and out of phase with the detection signal; a demodulation circuit that creates first and second demodulation signals by multiplying the detection signal respectively by the first and second reference signals; low-pass filters that extract first and second direct-current signals, which are respectively the direct-current components of the first and second demodulation signals; and a contact deciding unit that makes a decision about contact according to the first direct-current signal. The contact deciding unit decides that the connection state between the sensor unit and the detection circuit is abnormal when the first and second direct-current signals change in the same direction and normal when these signals change in opposite directions.

Contact deciding apparatus

An open/close control device which detects pinching by an open/close body due to driving of a motor, includes a computing unit configured to compute an acceleration term based on a change in a rotational period of the motor, and a load applied to the motor based on the acceleration term, based on a signal indicating the rotation period of the motor, a determination unit configured to determine that the pinching by the open/close body occurred, when the load computed by the computing unit exceeds a predetermined determination value, and a determination value adjusting unit configured to increase the determination value when a local maximum value of the acceleration term exceeds a predetermined threshold value, or the acceleration term becomes less than or equal to a predetermined reference value, or the acceleration term decrease by a predetermined value or more, during a certain period after starting the motor.

Open/close control device, open/close control system, open/close control method, and program

A contact determination device includes a sensor measuring a contact degree of a body to be detected with an object, a contact determination unit determining whether the body to be detected is in contact with the object, based on a reference value, and a correction unit correcting the reference value, in which a cumulative value is obtained by accumulating a fluctuation amount of the detection value from a contact start time of the body to be detected with the object during a period in which the body to be detected is in contact with the object, and when the detection value increases as the contact degree increases, the correction unit corrects the reference value, based on a maximum value of the cumulative value, or when the detection value decreases as the contact degree increases, the correction unit corrects the reference value, based on a minimum value of the cumulative value.

Contact determination device and contact determination method

An electrostatic input apparatus is provided. A measuring unit measures capacitance at a plurality of coordinates of an electrostatic coordinate input unit. A converting unit obtains a reference value of the capacitance and converts the capacitance to difference values according to a distance between the electrostatic coordinate input unit at the coordinates and a finger. A first coordinate calculating unit calculates barycentric coordinates of a contact portion from the difference values for the plurality of coordinates. A cycle determining unit determines whether the difference values at coordinates on a circumference of a circle with a predetermined radius centered on the barycentric coordinates exhibit periodicity of two cycles in one round along the circle. An operation determining unit performs, when the cycle determining unit determines that the difference values exhibit periodicity of two cycles, a determination that an input operation using two or more fingers has been performed.

Electrostatic input apparatus and input determination method

With respect to an opening/closing control device for controlling an opening/closing operation of an opening/closing body driven by a motor, the opening/closing control device includes a current detector, a voltage detector, a processor, and a memory. The processor calculates the speed of the opening/closing body based on a change in the detected position of the opening/closing body, and decreases the pinch threshold value in a case where a state, in which the calculated speed of the opening/closing body is less than or equal to a first predetermined threshold value, and a temporal change in the calculated load is greater than or equal to a second predetermined threshold value and less than or equal to a third predetermined threshold value, continues for a certain period of time or greater.

Opening/closing control device and opening/closing control method

A touch detecting apparatus includes an electrostatic sensor provided on an object; and a processor configured to detect whether a hand touches the object based on a capacitance measured by the electrostatic sensor. The processor is configured to, in response to the capacitance being greater than or equal to a first touch threshold, detect that the hand touches the object, and, for a second predetermined time from when a change amount of the capacitance during a first predetermined time becomes greater than or equal to a noise threshold, continue a state where a correction value has been added to the first touch threshold.

Touch detecting apparatus

An electrostatic coordinate input device includes a finger detection unit that detects a proximity position of a finger of an operator on an operation surface by a capacitive sensing method; and a correction unit that, in a case where two proximity positions corresponding to two fingers are detected by the finger detection unit, corrects the two proximity positions so as to increase a distance between the two proximity positions.

Electrostatic coordinate input device and electrostatic coordinate calculation method

Provided are a desmearing method and a desmearing device which are able to reliably remove a smear derived from any of an inorganic substance and an organic substance, and eliminate the need to use a chemical that requires a waste liquid treatment. The desmearing method of the present invention is directed to a desmearing method for a wiring substrate material that is a laminated body of insulating layers made from resin containing a filler and a conductive layer, and includes an ultraviolet irradiation treatment step for irradiating the wiring substrate material with ultraviolet beams with a wavelength of 220 nm or less, and a physical vibration treatment step for applying physical vibrations to the wiring substrate material which has undergone the ultraviolet irradiation treatment step.

Desmearing method and desmearing device

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a wiring board, which allows a desmearing process to be carried out appropriately without roughening a surface of an insulating layer. The method of manufacturing a wiring board includes a light irradiation step for irradiating a wiring board material with ultraviolet light in an atmosphere containing oxygen. The wiring board material has an insulating layer laminated on a conductive layer, a protective layer formed on the insulating layer, and a through hole (viahole) that penetrates the insulating layer and the protective layer. The method also includes a plating step for forming a plating layer, which is made from a conductive material, on the surface of the wiring board material from which the protective layer has been removed. The surface of the wiring board material includes a bottom of the through hole.

Method for producing wiring board, and wiring board

A desmear treatment method for a wiring board material is provide that is capable of performing desmear treating on the interior of a through hole formed in an insulating layer without requiring complicated steps and obtaining an insulating layer having appropriate surface roughness. The desmear treatment method comprises forming a hole passing through an insulating layer, wherein the insulating layer is made of a resin containing a filler, and desmear treating the wiring board material with radicals. The wiring board material includes a depletable resist layer formed on the insulating layer, and the depletable resist layer is made of a resin to be depleted in the desmear treatment step. A method of manufacturing a wiring board material to be subjected to the desmear treatment method and a composite insulating layer forming material used in the manufacturing method are also disclosed.

Wiring board desmear treatment method

A boundary position, which determines the range of the positions of the window within which trap prevention control is disabled, is set according to the sum of a first amount of rotation and a second amount of rotation. The first amount of rotation approximates a change, in a reference amount of rotation, that corresponds to a change in a detected voltage from a reference voltage. The second amount of rotation is set to a value that is smaller than the difference between a specific amount of rotation at a stop and the reference amount of rotation and is larger than the amount of variations in the reference amount of rotation.

Opening/closing control device

An input device includes a coordinate input unit including capacitance detectors, a capacitance measuring unit that measures the capacitances of the capacitance detectors and outputs them as measurement signals by performing A/D conversion, and a control unit that controls the capacitance measuring unit, obtains the signals while associating them with coordinate information of the capacitance detectors, calculates first data signals that are difference values between the measurement signals and a reference value, performs a calculation for the first data signals, outputs control signals based on the calculation result, performs a first calculation in which the first data signals obtained after performing a noise removal process are associated with the coordinate information as second data signals and a second calculation in which the second signals obtained after performing a smoothing process are associated with the coordinate information as third data signals, and calculates an operation position using the third data signals.

Input device having capacitance detectors and noise immunity

Provided is an input device including a coordinate input unit having plural capacitance detection units, a capacitance measurement unit that measures capacitance for each of the plural capacitance detection units, and performs an AD conversion on the measured capacitance to output the converted capacitance as a measurement signal, and a control unit that controls the capacitance measurement unit, calculates a data signal by arithmetically operating the measurement signal, stores the data signal in association with coordinate information of the capacitance detection unit, and outputs a control signal. The control unit calculates a difference value between a predetermined reference value and the data signal at a constant time interval, performs a weighted average process on the data signal and the predetermined reference value to update and store a value on which the process is performed as a new reference value, and changes a weight given to the weighted average process.

Input device

A method for treating waste water and a plant designed for preventing the precipitation of carriers under the air blower installed for reaction tank or aeration tank, wherein the plant comprises an aeration tank containing the carriers for growing microorganism for biological treatment of waste water or the subunit joined with the aeration tank through a partition wall including the screen capable of separating the carriers , air blower provided for the aeration tank or the subunit of the aeration tank, air bubble generator or submerged stirrer provided under the air blower for creating the flow of water so that the carriers under the blower can be liquidized by the flow of water created by the air bubble generator or the submerged stirrer to prevent the precipitation of the carriers under the air blower , whereby not only the precipitation of the carriers under the air blower can be prevented but also the water treatment efficiency and capacity meeting the designed numerical requirements can be maintained and exerted by the aeration tank.

Method and apparatus for treating waste water

Phosphorus in wastewater is removed by using an apparatus including a settling tank, an anaerobic tank, an aerobic tank, and a final settling tank. Nitrogen in wastewater is removed by using an apparatus including a settling tank, an anaerobic tank, a nitrification tank, and a final settling tank.

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Shinichi Endo