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The JAPIO database, provided by the Japan Patent Information Organization, represents the most comprehensive English-language access to Japanese unexamined patent applications (Kokai Tokkyo Koho) published since October 1976. All technologies are covered. Application records include both Japanese and non-Japanese priorities. Abstracts are provided only for applications originating in Japan, but are available for most records. Images of front page drawings, when available for a given patent, are also included.

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Subject Coverage [top]

JAPIO covers patents in four major fields:

• MECHANICAL (tools, vehicles, machines, engines, components)
• CHEMICAL (organic, inorganic, medical, biochemical, food chemistry, metallurgy, chemical apparatus and processes)
• ELECTRICAL (semiconductors, circuitry, electric machines, communications, radiation technology)
• and PHYSICAL (computing, information storage, measuring and testing, photography, optics)

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JAPIO is based on the print Patent Abstracts of Japan, produced by the Japan Patent Information Organization. Patent Abstracts of Japan is issued approximately four months after the original publication of the documents in the Japanese patent gazette.

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• Patent Abstracts of Japan

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• Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Patents

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available
• IDPAT Available
• Image Output Available
• MAP Available

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The JAPIO database is copyrighted by the Japan Patent Information Organization (Japio). Data may not be duplicated in hardcopy or machine-readable form without prior written authorization, except that limited reproduction is permitted solely for the internal distribution within the user's internal operation. Data may not be supplied to any third party in machine-readable form. The Japan Patent Information Organization expressly disclaims responsibility for Dialog's or its customers' claims, demands, or suits in respect to the content, accuracy, preciseness, translation, quality, or use of the data.

SAMPLE RECORD - JAPANESE PRIORITY APPLICATION WITH IMAGE [top]

	DIALOG(R)File 347:JAPIO
	(c) 2006 JPO & JAPIO. All rts. reserv.
	05773737    **Image available**
/TI	SULKY RICE TRANSPLANTER
/PN, PC=, PN=	PUB. NO.:     10-056837  [JP 10056837  A]
PD=, PY=	PUBLISHED:    March 03, 1998 (19980303)
AU=	INVENTOR(s):  ISHIDA ISAO
CO=, PA=	APPLICANT(s): ISEKI & CO LTD
/AN, AC=, AN=	APPL. NO.:    09-181241  [JP 97181241]
AD=	FILED:        July 07, 1997 (19970707)
IC=, /IC	INTL CLASS:   A01C-011/02; A01C-011/02
	ABSTRACT
/AB	PROBLEM  TO  BE  SOLVED:  To  provide  a sulky rice transplanter capable of
	eliminating problems in control to the shallow planting, planting seedlings
	at  a proper depth and improving the work efficiency and operating accuracy
	by controlling operations to deep planting when the forward descending tilt
	of the car body is large.
/AB	SOLUTION:   This   sulky  rice  transplanter  is  obtained  by  controlling
	operations  to  deep  planting  when the forward descending tilt of the car
	body  is  large  in  the  sulky  rice transplanter equipped with a seedling
	transplanting  device  10  attached  to the rear side of the sulky type car
	body  so as to enable the lifting and lowering, a float 14 installed in the
	lower part of the seedling transplanting device 10 so as to vertically move
	the front thereof around a shaft 26 provided near seedling planting devices
	13 when viewed from the side of the machine body and capable of controlling
	operations  so  as  to keep the seedling planting depth constant based on a
	change  in  an  elevation  angle of the float 14 relatively to the seedling
	transplanting device 10.
Image	_

SAMPLE RECORD - JAPANESE PRIORITY APPLICATION - OLD FORMAT [top]

SAMPLE RECORD - WITH NEW IPC FORMAT

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Abstracts available only for applications originating in Japan (Japanese priority and Japanese applicant). Records prior to 1980 may contain a short summary rather than an abstract.

² Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

³ JAPIO Classes and Keywords are searchable as codes or complete phrases using CL= and KW=, or by individual word in the Basic Index using /DE. EXPAND CL=1 or EXPAND KW=R001 to get a complete listing of codes and terms.

⁴ The fields, Applicant Entity, Applicant Country, JAPIO Class, JAPIO Keywords, and Source were discontinued in December 1998, JAPIO Class and JAPIO Keywords display in records published before January 1999,

⁵ IPC codes prior to version 8 (from January 2006) are also searchable in JAPIO format in the Basic Index using /IC. Note that the IPC version number is omitted after December 1998.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁶ Special suffixes are used to further restrict the apppropriate prefixed fields as noted: /PR (Priority) and /PA (Country of Applicant). The Country of Applicant was discontinued in December 1998.

⁷ Japanese application numbers are also searchable in the Basic Index in JAPIO format using /AN. Non-Japanese application numbers are indexed in standard DIALOG format only. If there is no non-Japanese priority field, the Japanese application data is designated as priority.

⁸ Dates can be searched with either 2-digit or 4-digit years, e.g., S AD=199011 or S AD=9011; S PD=19901128 or S PD=901128.

⁹ Format is: last name first name. Non-Japanese author names are usually transliterated and may not be in last name/first name order.

¹⁰ Applicant names may be transliterated. Use PA= for cross-file searching with other patent databases.

¹¹ With the introduction of the Reformed International Patent Classification (IPCR/8) on January 1, 2006, the format of the IPC group has increased in length from 3 to 4 digits. For comprehensive retrieval, both forms of the classification should be searched, e.g., S IC=H04R-025/00 OR IC=H04R-0025/00 . Advanced level classification codes can be searched directly in the ICA= index. IPCR/8 Classification codes can be linked to their attributes using the S operator.

¹² Each IPCR/8 classification code is also assigned a series of attributes. These include classification level (A - Advanced, C - Core, S - Subclass), value (I - Invnetive, N - Non-inventive), position (F - First, L - Later), status (B - basic, R - Reclassified, V - Various, D - Deleted), version date, action date, source (H - Human, M - Machine, G - Generated), and assigning office. The classification attributes can be searched with the IA= prefix and can be linked to an IPCR/8 classification code (assigned after January 1, 2006) using the S operator and quotes around the classification code, e.g., S IA=F(S)IC="A61K-0031/198" .

¹³ Japanese patent and application numbers use the 2-digit Emperor Year prior to the year 2000. Publication numbers are also searchable in the Basic Index in JAPIO format (without country code) using /PN or /AN.

¹⁴ For MAPping, use ANPR to extract only priority application numbers. Use ANYY to extract U.S. application numbers that include a four-digit year following the number.

¹⁵ Images can be displayed when searches are conducted on the Internet using Dialog Web or DialogClassic. For modem connections, proper display of images requires DialogLink for Windows or DialogLink Version 1.2 or higher.

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