Abstract: Power consumption by an electronic device carried by a user is to be reduced. The electronic device includes a detection unit, a simplified analysis unit, and a detailed analysis unit. The detection unit detects the presence/absence of movement of the electronic device. A power control unit starts a supply of electric power when there is movement in the electronic device. The simplified analysis unit performs a simplified analysis process while consuming the electric power, the simplified analysis process being a process of analyzing the data obtained from the electronic device. In accordance with an analysis result of the simplified analysis process, the detailed analysis unit performs a detailed analysis process while consuming the electric power, the detailed analysis process being a different process from the simplified analysis process.

Abstract: Provided is an etchant composition for a multilayered metal film comprising both a layer comprising copper and a layer comprising molybdenum, the etchant composition: being capable of etching en bloc a multilayered metal film comprising a layer constituted of copper or an alloy including copper as the main component and a layer constituted of molybdenum or an alloy including molybdenum as the main component; being effective in preventing the molybdenum layer from being undercut; making it easy to regulate the component concentrations so as to accommodate the cross-sectional shape control and cross-section; and being stable. Also provided are a method of etching using the etchant composition and a method for prolonging the life of the etchant composition.

Abstract: A rail cooling device configured to forcibly cool a rail by jetting a coolant includes a porous plate nozzle including a plurality of nozzle holes configured to jet the coolant to an underside of the base of the rail to cool the underside of the base of the rail. Ends in a width direction of the porous plate nozzle correspond to ends of the underside of the base of the rail. Nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at the ends of the width direction are smaller than nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at a central part in the width direction, and a maximum value of a distance between centers of the nozzle holes at both ends in the width direction is 30% or more of a width of the underside of the base.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet in which a thermally expansive layer that contains a thermally expandable material is formed on one side of a base, and wherethe thermally expansive layer is distended, the base deforms following distension of the thermally expansive layer and the base deforms into an embossed shape.

Abstract: An ink for forming a photothermal conversion layer used to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet to swell. The ink includes an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of the infrared light spectrum than in the visible light spectrum.

Abstract: An ink is used for forming a photothermal conversion layer used for causing expansion of at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet. The ink includes (i) an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of an infrared light spectrum than in a visible light spectrum, and (ii) a base that is transparent to visible light.

Abstract: A rail cooling device configured to forcibly cool a rail by jetting a coolant includes a porous plate nozzle including a plurality of nozzle holes configured to jet the coolant to an underside of the base of the rail to cool the underside of the base of the rail. Ends in a width direction of the porous plate nozzle correspond to ends of the underside of the base of the rail. Nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at the ends of the width direction are smaller than nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at a central part in the width direction, and a maximum value of a distance between centers of the nozzle holes at both ends in the width direction is 30% or more of a width of the underside of the base.

Abstract: Disclosed are an aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disc, which includes an aluminum alloy consisting of Mg:4.5-10.0 mass % (hereinafter referred to as %), Be: 0.00001-0.00200%,Cu: 0.003-0.150%, Zn: 0.05-0.60%, Cr: 0.010-0.300%, Si: 0.060% or less, and Fe: 0.060% or less, with a balance being Al and an unavoidable impurity, an amount of an Mg-based oxide being 50 ppm or less, (IBe/Ibulk)×(CBe)?0.1000% where (IBe) is a maximum optical emission intensity of Be in a surface depth direction using a glow discharge optical emission spectrometer (GDS) prior to performing a plating pretreatment, (Ibulk) is a mean optical emission intensity of Be in an interior of a base material of the aluminum alloy prior to performing a plating pretreatment, and (CBe) is an amount of the Be, and a method of manufacturing the magnetic disc aluminum alloy substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method that enables to reduce required power. In the signal processing apparatus, a RTC of a main chip and a RTC of a power supply chip are synchronized before power supply of the main chip is stopped, and the RTC of the main chip is synchronized with the time of the RTC of the power supply chip after the power supply of the main chip is restored. In this way, the RTC uses continuous time information before and after the stop. The present disclosure is capable of being applied to, for example, a GPS module in which a digital circuit includes a plurality of chips.

Abstract: A FIFO memory which reads data in response to a read request from a plurality of read units is realized with a simple configuration. When there is a data writing request to a first-in first-out data bolding unit provided with a plurality of entries in each of which data is held, a write pointer control unit writes data in the entry indicated by a write pointer out of a plurality of entries and updates the write pointer. Also, a read pointer control unit reads the data from the entry indicated by a read pointer corresponding to a read unit which requests data reading out of a plurality of read pointers associated with different read units and updates a corresponding read pointer.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs with excellent plating surface smoothness; a manufacturing method therefor; and a magnetic disc using said aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs. The present invention is an aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs, a manufacturing method therefor, and a magnetic disc using said aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs, the aluminum alloy substrate being characterized in being obtained from an aluminum alloy containing Mg: 2.0-8.0 mass % (“%” below), Be: 0.00001-0.00200%, Cu: 0.003-0.150%, Zn: 0.05-0.60%, Cr: 0.010-0.300%, Si: 0.060% or less, Fe: 0.060% or less, the balance being obtained from Al and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A rail cooling method for forcibly cooling a rail by jetting a coolant includes jetting the coolant to a foot back part of the rail from a porous plate nozzle in which a nozzle hole at an end in a width direction is smaller than a nozzle hole at a central part in the width direction and causes a cooling capacity for the end in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail to be lower than a cooling capacity for the central part in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail.

Abstract: An input device has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The second electrode opposes to the first electrode while being spaced apart therefrom. The third electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode and rotatably or slidably provided relative to the second electrode. By the third electrode being brought into contact with or spaced apart from the second electrode, an electrical state between the first electrode and the second electrode changes. Based on this electrical change, a rotary manipulation or a slide manipulation is detected.

Abstract: A substrate includes a first pattern on which terminals are formed; a second pattern on which terminals are formed; and a third pattern on which terminals are formed. A distance between a first pair of terminals which are configured by one terminal of the first pattern and one terminal of the second pattern is equal to a distance between a second pair of terminals which are configured by another terminal of the first pattern and one terminal of the third pattern, and a distance between a third pair of terminals which are configured by another of the terminals of the third pattern and another of the terminals of the second pattern is equal to a distance between a fourth pair of terminals which are configured by the other of the terminal of the third pattern and the other of the terminal of the first pattern.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for detection of a basic peptide by mixing a sample suspected to contain the basic peptide and a reagent containing denatured albumin and detecting turbidness due to a complex of the basic peptide and denatured albumin.

Abstract: A rail heat treatment device includes a cooling header, an oscillation mechanism, and a control system including: a storage unit that stores therein at least information required for a oscillation control; and a control unit that obtains a permissible range of required cooling time for a rail that satisfies a permissible range of hardness of the rail based on a correlation expression representing a correlation between the cooling time for the rail with the cooling header and the hardness of the rail after cooling, controls a stroke and a speed of relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header based on the permissible range of the required cooling time, and causes the oscillation mechanism to perform the relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header by the stroke and at the speed.

Abstract: There is provided a heat treatment apparatus, including: a processing container configured to perform a heat treatment on substrates accommodated in the processing container; a heating unit configured to cover an outer circumference of the processing container with a predetermined space defined the heating unit and the processing container; a discharge pipe installed outside of the processing container and within the predetermined space, and configured to communicate with an interior of the processing container to discharge an exhaust gas from the interior of the processing container; and a heat insulating member configured to cover a circumference of the discharge pipe.

Abstract: An oil-in-water type emulsified cosmetic and a method of making can be prepared in a system not containing a silicone and is surprising produced without a wet-type dispersion apparatus by using a specific combination of the oil component constituting the oily phase and a hydrophobizing agent for a hydrophobized powder. The composition includes an aqueous phase; an oily phase dispersed in the aqueous phase; and a powder dispersed in the oily phase. The oily phase comprises (a) volatile hydrocarbon oil and (b) non-volatile hydrocarbon oil in a combined amount of 40% by mass or more with respect to the total oil content, wherein the blending ratio of (b) non-volatile hydrocarbon oil to (a) volatile hydrocarbon oil, [(b)/(a)], is within a range of 0 to 2.5, and the powder comprises a powder having a surface hydrophobized by a treatment with a metallic soap consisting of a higher fatty acid and a divalent metal or a composite treatment with a higher fatty acid and a divalent metal hydroxide.

Abstract: A diaphragm can be obtained which exhibits large internal loss and Young's modulus and which can be produced efficiently. A speaker diaphragm 1 comprises at least one layer 1A formed by molding a component member configured by a fiber and a tangled fiber body of a synthetic fiber. The synthetic fiber is a polyvinyl alcohol fiber having boron.

Abstract: A rail cooling method includes: calculating, based on a relation between temperatures and an amount of warp of the rail cooled to ambient temperature after the forced cooling, the temperatures including a cooling start temperature of the head, a cooling end temperature of the head, a cooling start temperature of the foot and a cooling end temperature of the foot, a target value or a target value range for each of the temperatures so that the amount of warp of the rail at ambient temperature falls within a permissive range; and setting a cooling condition in accordance with the target value or the target value range to perform the forced cooling on the head and the foot.