The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Oki Data Corporation

Koyo Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.

Other

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

L'oreal

Kay Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.

Koyo Electronics Industries Ltd.

Yuichi Watanabe

Norio Shimizu

Atsushi Kimura

Noriyasu Iwane

Fumikazu Iwahana

Noboru Ito

Eiji Kadouchi

Kanji Takata

Megumi Kinoshita

Toshiyuki Sato

Takezo Sugimura

Kyosuke Hashimoto

Etsuzo Sato

Kenichi Machiyama

Junichi Fukutani

Toshiyuki Satoh

Katsumi Inaniwa

Hitoshi Manta

Tetsuya Kanou

Kiichi Naoi

Makoto Ando

Kazushi Shikata

Hiroaki Ozeki

Toshio Ishii

Yutaka Matsuda

Koichi Hirota

Kiyoshi Inoue

Satoshi Mizutani

Takashi Iijima

Ikuo Hayashi

Takefumi Adachi

Norikazu Kobayashi

Takafumi Hara

Fumio Asakura

Koji Fujimura

Yusaku Himono

Masaaki Tsuda

Hitonobu Furukawa

Shigeto Tsuge

Takeshi Ogura

Masami Takigawa

Kazuhiko Imamura

Yoshio Shinoda

Yoshimi Nakatani

Kazuyori Domoto

Mitsunori Kato

Kazuyuki Ono

Masateru Ueta

Yuji Yamasaki

Hisashi Ohtsuki

Hideaki Kobiki

Tomokazu Nagao

Kazuyoshi Sato

Takashi Iljima

A chargeable battery state detection apparatus configured to detect a state of a chargeable battery is provided, comprising processor(s) and memorie(s) communicatively connected to the processor(s), wherein the processor(s) read out a group of instructions stored in the memorie(s), and execute a detection process for detecting a voltage and a current of the chargeable battery; a storage process for storing voltage values detected at different times by the detection process after charge and discharge is stopped; a fitting process for fitting, with respect to the voltage values, by adjusting coefficients of a predetermined function; a calculation process for calculating an open circuit voltage based on the function; and a discard process for discarding at least a part of the voltage values stored by the storage process when a current value or a voltage value detected by the detection process fluctuates by a predetermined threshold value or greater.

Chargeable battery state detection apparatus and chargeable battery state detection method

To accurately determine whether an engine can be started while accurately detecting a degree of deterioration of a secondary battery, in a secondary battery state detecting device detecting a state of a secondary battery mounted on a vehicle, a measurement unit measures a value of an internal resistance of the secondary battery at an engine stop time. An estimation unit estimates a value of a diffusion resistance resulting from diffusion of an ion generated at an electrolytic solution of the secondary battery by supplying electric power to a starter motor at a starting time of the engine. A calculation unit calculates a starting voltage being a voltage for the starting of the engine from a resistance value obtained by adding the value of the diffusion resistance estimated by the estimation unit to the value of the internal resistance measured by the measurement unit.

Secondary battery state detection device and secondary battery state detection method

To provide a mist spraying device () capable of easily resolving clogging of micropores when they are clogged. The present invention provides a mist spraying device () including: a vibration plate () having an atomization part in which multiple micropores are formed; a vibration generator () for vibrating the vibration plate (); and a supply part for supplying a liquid to the atomization part (), the liquid supplied to the atomization part () being atomized by vibration of the vibration plate () and sprayed, wherein the mist spraying device further includes a heating element (), and the heating element () serves to warm the atomization part.

Nebulizer

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving data; a printing unit for printing the data; a data storage unit for storing the data; a print setting storage unit for storing a print enable setting indicating whether the data received with the receiving unit is printed; and a print control unit for controlling the printing unit to print the data stored in the data storage unit when the print enable setting is not set to print the data and it is determined that a remaining storage capacity of the data storage unit is not sufficient.

Information processing apparatus and method of processing information

A communication device includes a communication control unit for conducting communication with a destination device according to a first communication sequence or a second communication sequence more suitable for communicating through an IP network than the first communication sequence. The communication device further includes an IP network determining unit for determining whether the communication is conducted through the IP network. When the IP network determining unit determines that the communication is conducted through the IP network, the communication control unit conducts the communication according to the second communication sequence.

Communication device

A method is provided for reading sequentially a manuscript group made of plural sheets and dividing the manuscript group into manuscript data. The manuscript group made of the plural sheets is read sequentially to produce reading data. Each reading data of the sheet produced at the reading step is analyzed and judged on whether or not the sheet is added with a predetermined mark. The manuscript group data is divided by the reading data of the sheet added with the predetermined mark into plural manuscript data in a case where the sheet is judged as being added with the predetermined mark at the judging step. Thereafter, each of the manuscript data including the reading data of the sheet added with the predetermined mark in a storing region is collectively stored.

Method for reading sequentially a manuscript group made of plural sheets

The present invention relates to the rigidity of a backlight chassis and is applicable to a liquid crystal display device including a backlight chassis and a light source located in the backlight chassis. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a backlight chassis (), located to face a rear surface of a liquid crystal panel (), for supporting a light source () for illuminating the rear surface of the liquid crystal panel (). The backlight chassis () is a substantively flat plate-like member with upright peripheral portions (through), and includes grooves (through) in a first area (A) and a second area (A), which are separated from each other by a border line (L) set on the backlight chassis (). According to the present invention, the entirety of the backlight chassis is unlikely to be deflected.

Display device and backlight device

An image processing apparatus capable of receiving a response with respect to an acquisition request of management information of a printing apparatus even if the printing apparatus is working. The image processing apparatus comprises a network connecting section; an interface section; a data transferring section; a management information acquiring section; a management information storing section; and a network controlling section, in the case that the printing apparatus is not working, the management information acquiring section acquires management information from the printing apparatus; in the case that the printing apparatus is working, the management information acquiring section acquires management information from the management information storing section.

Image processing apparatus that can obtain management information from different sources

An image reading apparatus is supplied, which can continuously read plural manuscripts and memorize separatively their image data. The image reading apparatus can read plural manuscripts each is formed from head sheet and document sheet in pairs and read the plural manuscripts as respective image data, and comprises a sheet identifying section which identifies the head sheet; an information obtaining section which obtains sort information of the document sheet from the head sheet after the sheet identifying section identified the head sheet; and a reading section which reads the document sheet following the head sheet on the basis of the sort information obtained by said information obtaining section.

Image forming apparatus

A method for detecting SOC and SOH of a storage battery includes: calculating an SOC value of the storage battery with use of an SOC calculation unit based on a measured voltage value or a measured current value of the storage battery and calculating an SOH value of the storage battery with use of an SOH calculation unit based on the SOC value; further calculating a new SOC value with use of the SOC calculation unit based on the SOH value and calculating a new SOH value with use of the SOH calculation unit based on the new SOC value, these further calculations of SOC value and SOH value being repeated a prescribed n times of at least one so as to obtain an nth calculated SOC value and an nth calculated SOH value; outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOH output value and outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOC output value; and storing the SOH output value into a memory.

Method and apparatus for determining deterioration of secondary battery, and power supply system therewith

A method for estimating a remaining electrical charge or a remaining capacity of a battery that supplies power to a load, the method including: using, at a controller of a battery system, an approximate exponential decay function including a plurality of exponential function terms of time and a plurality of coefficients; stopping, at the battery system, a charge or discharge operation of the battery for a predetermined time; measuring, at a sensor of the battery system, a voltage of the battery at a plurality of instances during the predetermined time; obtaining, at the controller of the battery system, a relationship between the voltage of the battery and time; determining, at the controller of the battery system, the coefficients based on the obtained relationship between the voltage of the battery and the time.

Remaining electrical charge/remaining capacity estimating method, battery state sensor and battery power source system

An image-inputting apparatus into which an image is inputted is disclosed. The apparatus includes an information receiving section that receives a first item of information; a decision section that makes a determination as to whether the first item of information should be permitted to use the image-inputting apparatus, the determination being made based on the first item of information inputted into the image-inputting apparatus and a second item of information that has been registered previously in the image-inputting apparatus; and a transmitter that transmits the first item of information to an image-outputting apparatus. The image-inputting apparatus outputs the image to the image-outputting apparatus in accordance with the determination made by said decision section and a reply received from the image-outputting apparatus in response to transmission of the first item of information.

Image inputting apparatus, image outputting apparatus, and composite system that includes image inputting apparatus and image outputting apparatus

A scanner is connected to a printer to form a simple copying system in which the printer is controlled from the scanner. In one aspect of the invention, the scanner queries the printer to learn features implemented in the printer, and constructs a menu enabling a user of the scanner to control use of the printer's features, so that the scanner can be connected to a variety of printers without the need for firmware modifications. In another aspect of the invention, the printer has an accounting feature and manages printing fees according to account identifiers input by the scanner, eliminating the need to use copy cards to collect copying fees.

Image printing system, image input apparatus, and printing apparatus

A composite system includes an image-inputting apparatus and an image-outputting apparatus. The image-inputting apparatus includes a receiving section and first decision section. The receiving section receives an identification. The first decision section compares the identification with identifications that have been registered previously in the image-inputting apparatus, thereby determining whether the identification should be permitted to use the image-inputting apparatus. The identification is transmitted to the image outputting apparatus. The image outputting apparatus includes a second decision section. The second decision section compares the identification with identifications that have been registered previously in the image outputting apparatus, thereby determining whether the identification should be permitted to use the image-outputting apparatus. A replay indicative of the second determination is transmitted to the image-inputting apparatus. The image is outputted to the image-outputting apparatus in accordance with the determination made by said first decision section and the reply.

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Yuichi Watanabe