Abstract: A touch panel includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and a wiring board. The upper substrate includes an upper conductive layer, a pair of upper electrodes, and upper electrode terminals. The lower substrate includes a lower conductive layer, a pair of lower electrodes extending orthogonal to the upper electrodes, and lower electrode terminals. The wiring board includes a substrate portion, L-shaped upper and cover sheets. The substrate portion has upper and lower wiring patterns on its top and bottom surfaces, respectively. The upper wiring patterns are connected to each of the upper electrode terminals, and the lower wiring patterns are connected to each of the lower electrode terminals. At least part of the top surface of the upper wiring patterns is covered with the upper cover sheet, and at least part of the bottom surface of the lower wiring patterns is covered with the lower cover sheet.

Abstract: A first separate area insulated from a top conductive layer and extending in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of top electrodes is provided near an inner periphery of a spacer on a surface of the top substrate where the top conductive layer is provided. And/or a second separate area insulated from a bottom conductive layer and extending in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of bottom electrodes is provided near an inner periphery of the spacer on a surface of the bottom substrate where the bottom conductive layer is provided.

Abstract: A touch panel has an adhesive layer for mounting it on an apparatus only within a range corresponding to its visible area, excluding outer frame. By pressing, from above, only the range within the visible area where an adhesive layer is provided, it is mounted on a liquid crystal display, and thereby, formation of air bubbles and the like within the portion corresponding to the visible area can be reduced and a high quality electronic apparatus can be easily realized.

Abstract: A touch panel includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and a wiring board. The upper substrate includes an upper conductive layer, a pair of upper electrodes, and upper electrode terminals. The lower substrate includes a lower conductive layer, a pair of lower electrodes extending orthogonal to the upper electrodes, and lower electrode terminals. The wiring board includes a substrate portion, L-shaped upper and cover sheets. The substrate portion has upper and lower wiring patterns on its top and bottom surfaces, respectively. The upper wiring patterns are connected to each of the upper electrode terminals, and the lower wiring patterns are connected to each of the lower electrode terminals. At least part of the top surface of the upper wiring patterns is covered with the upper cover sheet, and at least part of the bottom surface of the lower wiring patterns is covered with the lower cover sheet.

Abstract: There is provided a novel method of forming uniform viral particles under physiological conditions. The method of forming uniform-sized viral particle aggregates composed of viral protein is characterized by incubating a viral protein such as SV40 virus VP1 at pH 5.0 to 7.0, room temperature, in the presence of 130 mM to 170 mM sodium chloride and 1.5 mM to 2.5 mM divalent cation, and in the presence of a particle formation acceleration factor such as SV40 VP2. For encapsulation of a substance to be encapsulated in the viral particles, the substance to be encapsulated is included during the incubation.

Abstract: The touch panel of the invention includes an optically transparent upper substrate having an upper conductive layer formed on an undersurface thereof, an optically transparent lower substrate having a lower conductive layer formed on an upper surface thereof and facing the upper conductive layer with a predetermined space, a spacer in a frame shape disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and a polarizing plate adhered to an upper surface of the upper substrate, in which the polarizing plate is adhered to the upper surface of the upper substrate within the outer periphery of the spacer.

Abstract: A determining unit determines whether a terminal is in a communicable state with other terminal via a personal area network. A restricting unit restricts use of the terminal, when the determining unit determines that the terminal is not in the communicable state with the other terminal via the personal area network.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a light-transmissible upper board, a lower board, an upper resistor layer on a lower surface of the upper board, a lower resistor layer provided on an upper surface of the lower board and facing the upper resistor layer with a predetermined space between the resistor layers, a wiring board having an end located between the upper board and the lower board, plural wiring patterns provided on the wiring board and connected to the upper resistor layer and the lower resistor layer, respectively, and an insulating cover sheet provided on the wiring board and covering the wiring patterns. The cover sheet extends to an inside beyond at least one of respective ends of the upper board and the lower board. This touch panel can be electrically connected to an electronic circuit stably.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a light-transmissible upper board, an upper resistor layer on a lower surface of the upper board, a light-transmissible lower board, a lower resistor layer provided on an upper surface of the lower board and facing the upper resistor layer with a predetermined distance, a spacer having a substantial frame shape between an outer periphery of the lower surface of the upper board and an outer periphery of the upper surface of the lower board, upper electrodes extending from both ends of the upper resistor layer, lower electrodes extending from both ends of the lower resistor layer, a wiring board, and wiring patterns on the wiring board. The spacer has a cutout portion provided therein. The upper and lower electrodes have portions located at the cutout portion of the spacer. The wiring board has an end located at the cutout portion. The wiring patterns are connected to the portions of the upper electrodes and the portions of the lower electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes first and second processors which execute first and second operating systems, first disk controller which accesses a disk storage device in response to a disk access request from the first processor, a second disk controller which accesses the disk storage device in response to a disk access request from the second processor, a switch device to connect one of the first and second disk controllers to the disk storage device, and a unit for switching an access path, which is used when the first processor accesses the disk storage device, between a first access pass in which the first processor executes access to the disk storage device via the second processor, and a second access pass in which the first processor executes access to the disk storage device without intervention of the second processor.

Abstract: A touch panel comprising: a resin substrate; a first film with one surface provided with a first conductive layer and another surface adhering the resin substrate; a second film provided with a second conductive layer on one surface facing the first conductive layer of the first film; and a third film adhering a surface of the resin substrate opposite to the surface the first film is adhered. The first and third films sandwich the resin substrate via adhesive layers. Warp caused by changes in temperature and humidity during and after the production of the touch panels can be decreased, thereby achieving application of the touch panels to a large-sized display apparatuses.

Abstract: The touch panel has a light-transmissive upper substrate, a light-transmissive lower substrate, and a bonding layer. The lower surface of the upper substrate is formed thereon with an upper conductive layer. The top surface of the lower substrate is formed thereon with a lower conductive layer facing the upper conductive layer with an air gap. The bonding layer is formed on at least one of inner edges of the lower surface of the upper substrate and the top surface of the lower substrate, and additionally has an open groove communicating with the air gap. The makeup provides a touch panel reliably operable with a simple structure.

Abstract: Provided is a dew condensation-free touch panel. Touch panel (200) has first transparent substrate (21) and second transparent substrate (22). First transparent substrate (21) has main surface (21a) provided with first transparent conductive film (23). Second transparent substrate (22) has main surface (22a) on which water vapor transmission preventive layer (40) as dew condensation prevention part, and second transparent conductive film (24) are provided in this order. Touch panel (200) has two regions: visible region (26a) and invisible region (26b) with region boundary (26) between them. Water vapor transmission preventive layer (40) is formed at least in visible region (26a). First transparent substrate (21) and second transparent substrate (22) are fixedly bonded to each other via adhesive layer (31) in invisible region (26b) or in the periphery of touch panel (200) so that first transparent conductive film (23) and second transparent conductive film (24) can have a predetermined distance therebetween.

Abstract: An input device is provided by piling up a plurality of touch panels in which an upper conductive layer of an upper substrate and a lower conductive layer of a lower substrate are disposed to oppose each other with a predetermined distance therebetween. Thus, inputting operations such as selection of a menu item or drawing of a character and determination of the item or character can be performed without tilting the input device downward but keeping it stationary and, hence, reliable actuation free from operating error can be attained.

Abstract: With objectives of providing a transparent board with conductive multi-layer antireflection, under condition of high transmissivity not only on a glass substrate but also on a non-glass transparent substrate with property of conductivity and demanded resistance at most exterior surface, laminating at least three layer thin films on a transparent substrate provides with an effect of high transmissivity by suppressing reflection from interference of optical waves, in which the transparent first dielectric layer thin film on the substrate that has a higher refractive index than the substrate has, the transparent second dielectric layer thin film next to the first-layer film that has a lower refractive index than the substrate has, and the most exterior transparent third conductive-layer thin film.

Abstract: A bandwidth management apparatus determines, when a call whose communication information is to be transmitted as a sequence of datagrams is assigned, a link to be used for transmitting the communication information, judges whether there exists a surplus bandwidth in sections of the determined link, and allocates the call to a bandwidth necessary for transmitting the communication information when the judgement result is true, and informs a node that is involved in call setup for the call about the judgement result. Also disclosed are an address resolution assistance apparatus that cooperates with the bandwidth management apparatus, a band managing method, and an address resolution assisting method which realize the respective apparatuses. In a network to which the invention is applied, good speech quality can be stably maintained irrespective of its configuration and scale.

Abstract: A touch panel has a first transparent substrate with a first transparent conductive layer, and a second transparent substrate with a second transparent conductive layer. Color of the touch panel has a b* value of 2.0 or smaller with respect to the L*a*b* color specification in accordance with JIS Z 8729. At least one of the first and second transparent substrates is provided with a color adjustment layer providing optical interference. The touch panel may further have a third transparent substrate provided with a color adjustment layer, or a third transparent substrate containing a colorant having color complementary to a color of the transparent conductive layer. The touch panel has a less yellowish appearance, and shows minimal color change of a color display device. When attached on a liquid crystal display device in an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus exhibits a high grade color display without a sense of incompatibility.

Abstract: The touch panel has a structure such that a projection portion is provided on a second transparent substrate and a flexible printed-circuit board is bonded by thermocompression to the projection portion. By allowing width of a picture frame to be smaller in other portions than the projection portion, downsizing and a lighter weight of a touch panel-carrying apparatus can be attained. By bonding a sheet member such as a polarizing plate to a top face of the second transparent substrate excluding an area of the projection portion, stress to be applied from the sheet member to the thermocompression-bonding portion of the FPC is reduced and, therefore, electric connection stability of the FPC can be enhanced.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes first and second processors which execute first and second operating systems, first disk controller which accesses a disk storage device in response to a disk access request from the first processor, a second disk controller which accesses the disk storage device in response to a disk access request from the second processor, a switch device to connect one of the first and second disk controllers to the disk storage device, and a unit for switching an access path, which is used when the first processor accesses the disk storage device, between a first access pass in which the first processor executes access to the disk storage device via the second processor, and a second access pass in which the first processor executes access to the disk storage device without intervention of the second processor.

Abstract: A touch panel has an adhesive layer for mounting it on an apparatus only within a range corresponding to its visible area, excluding outer frame. By pressing, from above, only the range within the visible area where an adhesive layer is provided, it is mounted on a liquid crystal display, and thereby, formation of air bubbles and the like within the portion corresponding to the visible area can be reduced and a high quality electronic apparatus can be easily realized.