Abstract: A glass antenna system for vehicles to receive AM and FM bands is provided. An electrically conductive transparent film is formed on a side glass. A silver printed line have a wide width is formed around the electrically conductive transparent film. A loop-shaped silver printed line is provide surrounding the film, which is capacitively coupled to the body. In this manner, an opening is formed in a space between the silver printed line and the electrically conductive film. An electrically shorted portion is provided between the silver printed line and the electrically conductive film. A coaxial feeder for AM/FM is provided. A central conductor of the feeder is connected to the silver printed line and the outer conductor to the body.

Abstract: An on-board antenna includes a radiation element provided on a dielectric substrate, a grounding conductor surrounding a periphery of an outer edge portion of the radiation element at a position spaced away outwardly from the outer edge portion, and a conductive member provided on the surface at a position spaced away outwardly from an outer edge portion of the grounding conductor.

Abstract: An on-board antenna comprising a radiation element provided on a dielectric substrate, a grounding conductor surrounding a periphery of an outer edge portion of the radiation element at a position spaced away outwardly from the outer edge portion, a substantially box-shaped reflecting member including an opening thereof. The opening of the reflecting member is closed by the surface of the dielectric substrate so as to face the radiation element, and a conductive member is provided at least partially on an inner surface of the reflecting member.

Abstract: An on-board antenna including a radiation element provided on a dielectric substrate, and a grounding conductor surrounding a periphery of an outer edge portion of the radiation element at a position spaced away outwardly from the outer edge portion, wherein the radiation element has an inner cut-out portion so that the surface of the dielectric substrate to be exposed therethrough.

Abstract: A diversity antenna system of the present invention includes: two antennas of different directionality, the two antennas generating two signals; a synthesizing means for generating a synthesized signal by synthesizing the two signals; a selection means for selecting either one selected from the group consisting of the two signals and the synthesized signal; and a selection controlling means for controlling the selection means. When the intensities of the two signals are not higher than a predetermined value, the selection controlling means controls the selection means such that the selection means fixedly selects the synthesized signal. According to the diversity antenna, excellent receptive conditions can be obtained even in weak electric fields.

Abstract: Compounds having an Rho kinase inhibitory activity. These compounds include the compound of general formula (I): Het-X-Z, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and solvates of the same, wherein Het represents a monocyclic or dicyclic heterocycle group containing at least one nitrogen atom (for example, pyridyl, phthalimido); X represents (i) an —NH—C(═O)—NH-Q1- group, (ii) an —NH—C(═O)-Q2- group, etc. (wherein Q1 and Q2 represent each a bond, alkylene or alkenylene); and Z represents hydrogen, halogeno, a monocyclic, dicyclic ortricyclic carbon cycle or heterocycle, etc. (for example, optionally substituted phenyl).

Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus is disclosed, in which even in the case where the range of lateral relative movement of a trestle is limited with respect to a base, the measurement can be continued without enlarging the space occupied by the apparatus body and without imposing an extra burden on the testee. The apparatus comprises a trestle (4) mounted on a base (3) and laterally movable relative to the base (3) and has a limited range, and a measuring head portion (5) mounted on the trestle (4) and automatically laterally moved relative to the trestle (4) with respect to a reference position (H1). In the case where the trestle (4) moves rightward or leftward and reaches a movement limit position O2, O3, the reference position (H1) of the measuring head portion (5) with respect to the trestle (4) is shifted in the direction in which the trestle (4) moves.

Abstract: The invention provides a glass antenna having an impedance that is close to the characteristic impedance of the antenna's feeder cable, even when an impedance matching circuit is not provided. A vehicle glass antenna includes a VHF band antenna provided on a window glass of a vehicle. The VHF band antenna includes (i) an antenna pattern including a first element extending substantially straight; a bend portion bending away from the first element; and a second element that is substantially parallel to the first element, extending from the bend portion, (ii) a grounding point to which the second element is connected; and (iii) a feeding point for the VHF band antenna.

Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus is disclosed, in which even in the case where the range of lateral relative movement of a trestle is limited with respect to a base, the measurement can be continued without enlarging the space occupied by the apparatus body and without imposing an extra burden on the testee. The apparatus composes a trestle (4) mounted on a base (3) and laterally movable relative to the base (3) and has a limited range, and a measuring head portion (5) mounted on the trestle (4) and automatically laterally moved relative to the trestle (4) with respect to a reference position (H1). In the case where the trestle (4) moves rightward or leftward and reaches a movement limit position O2, O3, the reference position (H1) of the measuring head portion (5) with respect to the trestle (4) is shifted in the direction in which the trestle (4) moves.

Abstract: A glass antenna device for a vehicle includes an FM reception antenna and an AM reception antenna both provided on a window glass of the vehicle, an AM-antenna-side impedance converter and a receiver-side impedance converter disposed at a different position from the window glass, a first coaxial cable interconnecting the two impedance converters, a receiver, and a second coaxial cable interconnecting the receiver-side impedance converter and the receiver. The distributed capacitance of the second coaxial cable is not in excess of 10 pF, so that the vehicle glass antenna device can reduce transmission loss at transmission lines, thus ensuring reception of AM signals at high sensitivity with little attenuation.

Abstract: In an ophthalmologic apparatus which can start a measurement or a photographing operation with respect to an eye to be examined by suitably making an automatic alignment with a cornea of the eye as a center, When a diseased eye is to be measured, slight reflected light (e.g., cornea scattering light) except for reflected light from a vertex of the cornea of the eye is interrupted by an XY alignment detecting stop even when this slight reflected light is detected by a position detecting sensor. Accordingly, since no slight reflected light is almost incident to a light quantity detecting sensor, the XY alignment light quantity detecting circuit does not output an alignment completion signal to a control circuit. Thus, the control circuit performs a control operation such that the measurement or the photographing operation with respect to the eye is not performed.

Abstract: A glass antenna device for a vehicle includes an FM antenna (as a receiving antenna for short-waves) and a defogger provided on a rear window glass of the vehicle, and an AM antenna (as a receiving antenna for medium-waves) provided on a side window glass fixed at a different position from the rear window glass of the vehicle. Since the AM antenna is spaced relatively far distant from electric equipments such as a rear wiper, stop lamps and indicators disposed at a rear portion of the vehicle, noises generated from the electric equipments are unlikely to be mixed in a transmission line of the antenna device.

Abstract: A noncontact tonometer has a control circuit which actuates a puffing means to apply an air pulse through a puffing nozzle to the cornea of a subject's eye only when it is found from alignment positional information provided by an XY-alignment detecting circuit that the position of an intraocular pressure measuring unit relative to the cornea is in a predetermined range narrower than and in an allowable alignment range when the alignment of the intraocular pressure measuring unit is readjusted after the measurement of the thickness of a specific section of the cornea.

Abstract: A rear window glass antenna on a rear window glass panel of an automobile includes a plurality of heating electric wires disposed horizontally on the rear window glass panel, a feeder terminal disposed on the rear window glass panel near an edge thereof, and a plurality of antenna wires disposed on the rear window glass panel. The antenna include a first section extending from the feeder terminal along an edge of the rear window glass panel, a second section folded from an end of the first section toward a vertical central line of the rear window glass panel, and a third section extending as a main antenna section from an end of the second section. The second section includes a horizontally folded portion which comprises a plurality of thin wires lying parallel to each other.

Abstract: A noncontact tonometer is provided which is capable of intercepting out-of-axis light of an index beam of light and performing precise alignment. The noncontact tonometer includes an index projecting optical system for projecting an index frontally onto a subject's eye (E) through a nozzle (12) through which gas is also is sprayed upon the eye (E). The index projecting optical system has a projection lens (27) and a diaphragm (23) disposed at a position conjugated to an end surface (F) of the nozzle (12) on the side of the projection lens (27). The diaphragm (23) intercepts rays of light traveling out of an optical axis, and enables precise alignment.

Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus is provided which comprises a slit light projecting optical system (60) for projecting a slit beam of light from an oblique direction onto the cornea (C) of a subject's eye, a light receiving optical system (70) for receiving light reflected by the cornea (C), a corneal thickness measuring circuit (74) for measuring the thickness of the cornea from information on the received light of the light receiving optical system (70), an index light projecting optical system (90) for projecting from an oblique direction onto the cornea (C) an index beam of light having a larger width than the slit beam, and a line sensor (72) for receiving the index beam reflected by the cornea (C).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ophthalmic instrument comprising: an optical measuring section (101) for housing an optical system that measures characteristics of an object eye; an alignment detecting optical system (17') for optically detecting an offset quantity in alignment between the optical measuring section and the object eye; drive units (102 and 103) for moving the optical measuring section (101) vertically, laterally, and longitudinally on the basis of the offset quantity detected by the alignment detecting system (17'); and a control circuit (51) for transmitting a signal which instructs start of measurement to the optical measuring section (101) when the alignment detecting system detects that the object eye has been moved within a measurable area.

Abstract: A stopper knob (108) is provided on the side surface of a base (101). If a joy stick (107) is tilted forward lowering the stopper knob (108), a platform frame (109) advances, and the main body of an instrument can be roughly aligned with a subject eye to be tested. If the alignment is completed, the stopper knob (108) is released. In the ophthalmic instrument of the present invention, automatic alignment which performs precise alignment on the subject eye is not started by only releasing the stopper knob (108). The ophthalmic instrument is provided with a microswitch (111). When the platform frame (109) is pulled on a tester's side by the joy stick (operating stick) (107) and the microswitch (111) engages with a protruding portion (112) fixed to the base (101), automatic alignment is started.

Abstract: In the prediction of side-chain conformation of protein, conformations are predicted by describing a candidate conformation in the form of an array whose components are the torsion angles of a side chain, subjecting a plurality of solution candidates to evaluation, increasing side chains in a stepwise manner, judging the appropriateness of a solution candidate based upon degree of its van der Waals contact, and generating a new solution candidate by changing torsion angle to an arbitrary value or by interchanging the components of the torsion-angle arrays of two solution candidates. Further, the foregoing processing is executed with respect to the main-chain conformation whenever a side-chain conformation corresponding to one amino acid residue is constructed, and construction of all side-chain conformations is performed in incremental fashion.

Abstract: An ophthalmological instrument is provided in which optical members can be satisfactorily cleaned, the times for cleaning can be reduced and reliability of measuring accuracy can be improved. An alignment between a cornea (C) of an eye (E) to be tested and an instrument body is detected by projecting an alignment detecting light toward the cornea (C) through alignment detecting optical systems (30, 40) and receiving a luminous flux reflected on the cornea (C) through a light receiving sensor (45). A working distance between the cornea (C) and the instrument body is detected projecting a working distance detecting light toward the cornea (C) through working distance detecting optical systems (50, 60) and receiving a luminous flux reflected on the cornea (C) by a light receiving sensor (63). Part of optical paths of the alignment detecting optical systems (30, 40) and the working distance detecting optical systems (50, 60) are not used in common.