Japan Tobacco Inc.

Nec Corporation

Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Takehiro Suzuki

Mikio Komori

Fumio Kubo

Shigemitsu Inomata

Tomio Orihara

Takeshi Matsumura

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Masahiro Fujii

Masashi Koide

Yoshiaki Ishikawa

Susumu Shimada

Kazuo Kudoh

Yasushi Ariyoshi

Yukio Katou

A wireless communication system of the present invention includes: terminals; a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminals; a gateway apparatus that manages the terminals and the base station; and a server apparatus that authenticates the terminals. The gateway apparatus includes: at least one C-plane processor that processes C-plane; and N U-plane processors that process U plane. Each of the N U-plane processors notifies the C-plane processor of its own load status. The server apparatus notifies the C-plane processor of service levels of target terminals that try to perform entry to a network in which the base station and the gateway apparatus are located. The C-plane processor allocates, based on the load status of each of the N U-plane processors and the service levels of the target terminals, one of the N U-plane processors as an entry destination to the target terminals.

Wireless communication system, gateway apparatus, terminal allocation method, and program

A handover control device that conducts switching-over base station(s), in which a mobile stationNcommunicates, from one base station to another neighboring base station wherein a gateway servermonitors communication quality of the mobile stationNat a frequency according to a service level assigned to the mobile stationNand, if the communication quality falls below a predetermined quality, sends information on the another base station to the mobile stationN.

Handover control device, method, and program

When a service providing device which provides a service to a mobile communication terminal enters a service stop mode, a signal indicating that the service stop mode is set in is transmitted to service providing devices other than that service providing device. Upon reception of the signal, the service providing device which has transmitted the signal releases the resource of the mobile communication terminal to which a service has been provided.

Communication system, service providing apparatus, resource management method and program

When a service providing device which provides a service to a mobile communication terminal has entered a service stop state, a managing device connected to the service providing device instructs service providing devices other than the service providing device which has entered the service stop state, to release a resource of a mobile communication terminal to which a service has been provided by the service providing device which has entered the service stop state.

Communication system, management apparatus, management method and program

A device for detecting a shredded tobacco filling density in a tobacco rod includes four light sources ( and ) arranged separately from one another at an angle of 45&deg; around a tobacco rod (T) and causing infrared rays to enter the tobacco rod (T), two light receivers ( and ) disposed around the tobacco rod (T) on a side opposite to the four light sources and arranged separately from each other at an angle of 90&deg;, and a measuring device ( ) for measuring the shredded tobacco filling density in the tobacco rod (T) based on outputs from the light receivers ( and ).

Device for detecting a filling density of filler forming a rod-shaped article

Disclosed is a cold curable resin composition comprising at least a block copolymer in which a polymer portion having an epoxy group, a hydroxyl group and a hydrolytic silyl group and a polyorganosiloxane portion exist in the same molecular chain. A base material coated with the curable resin composition is also disclosed herein. The resin composition of the present invention has high performance in application to, for instance, an inorganic base material such as a plastic plate, e.g., an acrylic plate and glass, and has excellent cold curing properties, possesses high de-staining ability and excellent adhesive properties, and further can form a smooth and transparent coating film.

Cold curable resin composition and base material coated with the same

A shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a supply passage extending toward a conveyor belt, the supply passage is provided with a plurality of air blowing openings arranged at intervals in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the conveyor, and a straightening plate having a plurality of straightening fins is mounted at the air blowing opening. The straightening fin extends at a predetermined angle toward the front side of the conveyor with respect-to the axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the conveyor. The air injected from the air blowing opening is blown into the supply passage at a predetermined angle with respect to the aforementioned axis. The shredded tobacco reaching the supply passage is discharged toward the belt surface of conveyor belt by using an air flow produced by the air blown from the air blowing openings. As a result, a velocity component in the belt running direction is given to the shredded tobacco, so that the attracting property of shredded tobacco to the belt surface is enhanced. Thereupon, the reduction in attracting property caused by the increase in belt running speed, and in turn, the degradation in cigarette quality are prevented.

Shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing

An aqueous emulsion of alkylalkoxysilane which has a stable emulsion state for a long period of time and is useful as an infiltrative preventer of water absorption into a porous inorganic construction material, the emulsion containing an alkylalkoxysilane, water and an emulsifier, wherein droplets of the alkylalkoxysilane in the water has a diameter in the range of from 0.5 to 10 .mu.m, and a process for the production of an aqueous alkylalkoxysilane emulsion, which comprises emulsifying and dispersing an alkylalkoxysilane, water and an emulsifier under conditions sufficient to form an emulsion in which droplets of the alkylalkoxysilane in the water has a diameter in the range of from 0.5 to 10 .mu.m.

Aqueous emulsion of alkylalkoxysilane, process for the production

A shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a running speed sensor for detecting the belt running speed of a belt conveyor for conveying shredded tobacco, a blow fan for producing an air flow in a shredded tobacco supply passage extending toward the belt conveyor, and a main controller for driving the blow fan in accordance with the output of the running speed sensor. When the blow fan is driven, air is blown from the blow fan into the supply passage at a blowing velocity matching the belt running speed, by which air flow is produced. The shredded tobacco supplied to the supply passage is delivered to the conveyor belt by the air flow. At this time, a velocity component in the belt running direction, which is substantially equal to the belt running speed, is given to the shredded tobacco. Even when the belt is run at a high speed to increase the production volume of cigarettes, the difference in relative speed between the shredded tobacco and the belt of belt conveyor decreases, so that the attracting property of shredded tobacco to the belt surface is enhanced, by which the degradation in cigarette quality caused by the increase in belt running speed is prevented.

A receiving apparatus for cigarettes having a catcher drum rotatable in one direction, a large number of receiving grooves formed in the outer peripheral surface of the catcher drum, each receiving groove being tunnel-shaped and permitting a received double cigarette to advance, a stopper member formed in each receiving groove and having a stopper surface, a plurality of suction holes formed in the bottom of each receiving groove for supplying a suction pressure to the receiving groove, and a hole permitting the atmosphere or suction pressure to be introduced into the receiving groove from the stopper surface of the stopper member, where the suction pressure supplied from the suction holes and the atmospheric pressure introduced from the stopper surface cooperatively cause the double cigarette advancing in the receiving groove to be stopped at a position short of the stopper member.

Apparatus for receiving rod members

An infiltration-type water-based organosilicon composition having excellent performance as a water absorption preventer for construction materials and being stable as an emulsion, which is prepared by emulsifying alkylalkoxysilane and/or its condensate in water in the presence of (a) an anionic emulsifier and/or nonionic emulsifier, (b) a thickener, and (c) an alkaline compound.

Water-based organosilicon composition

A monitoring system comprises an inspection device incorporated in a cigarette manufacturing machine and a server computer connected to the inspection device by means of a communication line. The inspection device includes a measuring circuit for continuously calculating the fill of the cut tobacco in each of a given number of divisions of each cigarette in accordance with a detection signal from a density sensor, an enrollment control section for repeatedly storing calculation data from the measuring circuit in a quantity corresponding to a predetermined number of cigarettes at a time, and a CPU for computing average calculation data for each division of each cigarette in accordance with the stored calculation data. The server computer originates quality data for the cigarettes in accordance with the average calculation data and displays the quality data on a CRT.

System for monitoring the quantity of cut tobacco in cigarettes

A dilution monitoring system for filter cigarettes has pairs of pressure sensors provided individually for left- and right-hand manufactured filter cigarettes, a dilution processor card adapted to receive pressure signals from the pressure sensors through an A/D converter, and a server computer connected to the processor card by means of a communication line and including a CRT. The dilution processor card computes the respective dilutions of the individual filter cigarettes in accordance with the pressure signals, and stores the computation results in a RAM. Thereafter, the processor card obtains quality data, such as the average, frequency distribution, and standard deviation of the stored dilutions, for each group of the left- and right-hand filter cigarettes, also stores the quality data in the RAM. The server computer receives the quality data transmitted from the processor card, and displays them in the form of a graph or table on the CRT.

Dilution monitoring system for filter cigarettes

An apparatus for carrying out a web delivery method is designed so that a web is delivered from a freely rotatable web roll to be supplied to a cigarette manufacturing machine as a pulling roller rotates. This apparatus has a powder brake for applying a braking force to the web roll, a rotary encoder for detecting the number of revolutions of the web roll, a timing sensor for detecting the number of revolutions of the pulling roller, a CPU board for calculating the diameter of the web roll in accordance with detection signals from the rotary encoder and the timing sensor, and a control board for controlling the braking force of the powder brake in accordance with various operation modes of the apparatus and the diameter of the web roll.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takehiro Suzuki