Abstract: Based on the present invention, superior compact spectrometers may be constructed and integrated into a cellular phone, or attached to a cellular phone. Such a cellular phone may be a PDA phone, which supplies electrical power to the said spectrometer, provided with data storage, signal processing capability, and real-time display. As a combined standalone system, it allows spectroscopic measurements to be fulfilled in real-time applications in field, and results can be sent out in wireless communication to a remote station or to another cellular phone user in order to share the measurement results right away. When the system is used with a laser to function as a Raman spectrometer system, it can fulfill many daily routine tasks encountered by ordinary civilians, for example, the blood glucose monitoring for diabetes patients at home in a non-invasive manner.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes first electrodes, a second electrode placed opposite the first electrodes, and a microcapsule layer placed between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The microcapsule layer contains microcapsules containing a dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles and a binder for retaining the microcapsules between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The electrophoretic particles are sealed in each microcapsule in such a state that the electrophoretic particles are dispersed in the dispersion medium. The following inequality is satisfied: (?2·?2)/(?1·?1)<1??(?) where ?1 is the resistivity of the dispersion medium, ?1 is the dielectric constant of the dispersion medium, ?2 is the resistivity of the binder, and ?2 is the dielectric constant of the binder.

Abstract: A drive device capable of engaging a drive shaft and a part holding the drive shaft with a suitable force without accompanying increase in the size of the drive device. The drive device includes a couple member with a piezoelectric element and a transmission shaft coupled together, a lens holder that holds a lens and to which the couple member is secured, a biasing member that biases the transmission shaft in a direction intersecting a placement direction of the transmission shaft viewed from the lens holder (excluding a lengthwise direction of the transmission shaft), and a link member (link body) that holds the transmission shaft in a slidable manner together with the biasing member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining which one or more time series parameters of a plurality of time series parameters relating to operation of a system are correlated with a first operation state of the system.

Abstract: A method of determining the quality of a friction weld between two components, the method comprising joining two components together using a friction welding process, measuring the loss of length of the components as a function of time during the friction welding process, determining the double differential with respect to time of the loss in length of the components as a function of time, determining the quality of the friction weld by calculating the R2 value of the linear fit to the loss in length of the components as a function of time over a defined time period, determining the end of the defined time period by identifying the start of the final positive peak of the double differential with respect to time of the loss of length of the components as a function of time, calculating R2 from the least square difference of the linear fit over the defined time period of the loss of length of the components as a function of time and comparing the calculated value of R2 with acceptable values of R2 to determine

Abstract: The present invention is a method of forging a bevel gear, comprising: a first forging step in which a first intermediate article is obtained by pressing a blank, such that there is formed a preliminary one-end recessed part that is axially recessed in an axis-center part on an axially one-end side and/or a preliminary other-end recessed part that is axially recessed in an axis-center part on an axially other-end side; a second forging step in which a second intermediate article is obtained by pressing the first intermediate article in a hermetically sealed cavity space defined by a first die and a second die that is positioned opposedly to the first die in the axial direction, such that there are formed: a body part including a tooth part on a radially circumference thereof and a one-end recessed part that is axially recessed in an axis-center part on the axially one-end side; and a projecting part projecting from a rear surface part of the body part on the axially other-end side; and a through-hole forming

Abstract: To inhibit a diffusion of particles into a processing chamber and reduce a cost required for exchanging a gas filter. A substrate processing apparatus comprises: a processing chamber processing substrates; a gas supply part supplying processing gas into the processing chamber; wherein the gas supply part has a gas supply nozzle disposed in the processing chamber; a filter removing impurities contained in the processing gas; and a gas supply port opened in the gas supply nozzle, for supplying into the processing chamber the processing gas from which impurities are removed by the filter.

Abstract: A main pole has a top surface and a bottom end that each include first, second, and third portions arranged contiguously in this order of increasing distance from a medium facing surface. A first virtual plane and a second virtual plane are assumed. The first virtual plane passes through an end of an end face of the main pole located forward in the direction of travel of a recording medium and is perpendicular to the medium facing surface and to the direction of travel of the recording medium. The second virtual plane passes through an end of the end face of the main pole located backward in the direction of travel of the recording medium and is perpendicular to the medium facing surface and to the direction of travel of the recording medium. The first and third portions are inclined relative to the first and second virtual planes and the medium facing surface. The second portion is parallel to the first and second virtual planes.

Abstract: An ECU executes a program including a step of turning on an SMRP and an A-SMRP if an ignition switch is turned on; a step of detecting voltage values VB(1) and VB(2) of running batteries when VH is detected and if VH is higher than 180 V; a step of detecting that SMRP connected to the running battery is welded, if VB(1) is higher than 150 V; and a step of detecting that A-SMRB connected to the running battery is welded, if VB(2) is higher than 150 V.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for retrieving information. The process includes an extracting process, an executing process, a first creating process, a second creating process, a determining process. The extracting process extracts, from a first composition that is an object to be searched for and that includes first sentence elements and a second composition that indicates a retrieval condition and that includes second sentence elements, the first sentence elements, the second sentence elements, and sentence element relations indicating relations between the first sentence elements and relations between the second sentence elements.

Abstract: New vinyl-alkynylsubstituted germanium compounds having the general formula 1 are the subject of the invention. The invention also relates to a new method of obtaining vinyl-alkynylsubstituted germanium compounds having the general formula 1. — A denotes: diethylgermyl — R denotes: triethylsilyl, 1-(trimethylsiloxy)-1-cyclohexyl The invention also provides a solution to the problem of the method of obtaining vinyl-alkynylsubstituted germanium compounds having the general formula 1, involving the germylative coupling reaction between a suitable substituted terminal alkyne and a suitable divinylsubstituted germanium compound in the presence of a ruthenium(II) complex as catalyst.

Abstract: A dielectric porcelain composition contains a major component represented by a composition formula (BaO.xTiO2). The dielectric porcelain composition contains also contains a first minor component represented by a composition formula raB2O3 and a second minor component represented by a composition formula rbCuO. In the formulae, x is a molar ratio of TiO2 to BaO and is within a range of 4.6 to 8, ra is a weight ratio of B2O3 with respect to the major component and is within a range of 0.5 to 5% by mass, and rb is a weight ratio of CuO with respect to the major component and is within a range of 0.1 to 3% by mass.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a stator and manufacturing method of the stator in which the coil conducts of the stator have three phases (a U phase, V phase, and W phase), which are arranged in a distributed winding form in a plurality of slots of a stator core. The coil conductors of the three phases each include a slot conductor portion that is disposed in the slot, and a pair of coil end conductor portions disposed on both axial sides of the stator core to connect the slot conductor portions disposed in the different slots. The stator also includes a first side transition wire portion in each phase that is disposed further toward a radial inner side than an inner peripheral end surface of a tooth provided on each circumferential side of the slot so as to overlap another first side transition wire portions in the axial direction.

Abstract: A noise reduction filter processing circuit includes a first operating part calculating first saturation information indicative of a saturation of an input image, a nonlinear processing part performing nonlinear processing on the input image, a second operating part calculating second saturation information indicative of a saturation of the input image subjected to the nonlinear processing, and a correction operating part performing a correction operation on the input image subjected to the nonlinear processing using the first saturation information and the second saturation information.

Abstract: When a piece 6a has stopped at an empty element 3, a castle 10 can be built at the element, and ownership can be set to the element. When another piece 6b has stopped at the element to which the ownership has been set, a sub-game is executed so that a player who owns the castle 10 (element 3), another player who uses a piece 6b, and a third player who uses a piece 6c that is positioned within a given range from the castle 10 participate in the sub-game. When the player who owns the castle 10 has won the sub-game, the player can collect the cost of staying from the player who uses the piece 6b. When the player who uses the piece 6b has won the sub-game, the player who uses the piece 6b can acquire the ownership of the castle 10.

Abstract: There is provided a method of making an active material with satisfactory cycle characteristics. The method of making an active material according to the invention comprises contacting an aqueous solution containing a metal-fluoro complex and lithium salt with lithium-containing metal oxide particles.

Abstract: When the relation of battery temperature Tb1>battery temperature Tb2 is satisfied, a temperature increase request for a power storage unit becomes relatively large. Therefore, a target power value P2* for the power storage unit is determined with priority. The target power value P2* is calculated by multiplying the required power value Ps* by a distribution ratio Pr2 (0.5?distribution ratio Pr2?1.0) determined in accordance with temperature deviation between battery temperature Tb1 and battery temperature Tb2. The target power value P1* is determined by subtracting the target power value P2* from the required power value Ps*.

Abstract: Accuracy of user validation is improved without reducing user's convenience. When a authentication request packet is received from a terminal, when the authentication is successful based on a user ID and a password (affirmative in 34), an HTTP header and user-agent (UA) information are extracted from the packet and an access source IP address is also extracted (36), and user authentication is performed by verifying the access source IP address and the UA information against usage history information (38, 44, and 46) where at most two sets of the IP address and the UA information extracted from the authentication request packet which is received from the same user previously are registered.

Abstract: Disclosed is a spark ignition type internal combustion engine, which comprises a variable compression ratio mechanism capable of changing a mechanical compression ratio, and a variable valve timing mechanism capable of controlling the closing timing of an intake valve. The intake air flow to be fed to the inside of a combustion chamber is controlled mainly by changing the closing timing of an intake valve so that the mechanical compression ratio is set higher at an engine low-load running time than that at an engine high-load running time. The mechanical compression ratio at the engine low-load running time before completion of the warm-up of the internal combustion engine is set lower than that at the engine low-load running time after completion of the warm-up of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A primary circuit turns on switching elements and generates energy from a direct-current power supply to a secondary circuit through a transformer. The secondary circuit charges a driven element using the energy obtained from the primary circuit through the transformer, turns on a switching element, discharges the energy accumulated in the driven element, and generates the energy in the primary circuit through the transformer. The primary circuit returns the energy obtained from the secondary circuit to the direct-current power supply.