Abstract: An end fixing structure of a composite wire rod includes a composite wire rod, a wedge body 30 formed in a cylindrical shape, whose outside diameter expands from a tip portion subject to a tensile force toward a back end portion on a fixed side, to whose inner wall surface 42 an outer surface of the composite wire rod is transferred, and in which the inner wall surface engaging with the outer surface of the composite wire rod is formed, and a sleeve provided on an outer circumferential side of the wedge body and having an internal structure of a conical hollow whose diameter expands toward the back end portion on the fixed side, wherein the wedge body is formed from a plurality of divided wedge bodies and the inner wall surface is formed from a fine irregularity.

Abstract: An electric regenerative turbocharger includes: an exhaust gas energy regenerative unit placed in an exhaust gas path and having a power generator; and a supercharging unit placed in an intake air path of an internal combustion engine and having an electric motor, and the electric motor includes a first electricity storage unit which is driven independently from the power generator and which is electrically connected to the exhaust gas energy regenerative unit and the supercharging unit, a second electricity storage unit which is connected to the first electricity storage unit and which supplies electricity to an electric component, and an electricity converting unit placed between the first electricity storage unit and the second electricity storage unit.

Abstract: A compiling method for reading, by a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a source file therein and outputting an executable binary file, the compiling method including: a first step of receiving, by the computer, an interface file including a process and a module constructing a business process, input/output information of data of the business process being defined in the interface file, operation information for data set to be used in the business process being defined in the interface file; a second step of validating, by the computer, the operation information for the data set defined in the interface file; a third step of inhibiting, by the computer, generation of the executable binary file when a validation result is invalid; and a fourth step of generating, by the computer, the executable binary file from a source file containing the interface file when the validation result is valid.

Abstract: To enhance electromigration resistance of an electrode. A drain electrode is partially formed on a side surface of a drain pad. In this case, the drain electrode is integrated with the drain pad and extends from the side surface of the drain pad in a first direction (y direction). A recessed portion is located in a region overlapping with the drain electrode in a plan view. At least a part of the drain electrode is buried in the recessed portion. A side surface of the recessed portion, which faces the drain pad, enters the drain pad in the first direction (y direction).

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a projector which emits display light of an image indicating vehicle information, a controller that controls luminance of the display light, and a screen that displays the image when the display light is projected to the screen. The screen has a convex portion that protrudes to a near side in a direction in which the image is visually recognized, and a concave portion that is recessed to a far side. In addition, the controller controls the luminance of the display light so that the display light projected to the convex portion (first parts) has higher luminance than that of the display light projected to the concave portion (second parts).

Abstract: To enhance electromigration resistance of an electrode. A drain electrode is partially formed on a side surface of a drain pad. In this case, the drain electrode is integrated with the drain pad and extends from the side surface of the drain pad in a first direction (y direction). A recessed portion is located in a region overlapping with the drain electrode in a plan view. At least a part of the drain electrode is buried in the recessed portion. A side surface of the recessed portion, which faces the drain pad, enters the drain pad in the first direction (y direction).

Abstract: This electric fan has a rotation shaft that is provided rotatably with respect to a stator, a rotor yoke provided on the rotation shaft and formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape so as to cover the stator from a front surface, and a bracket that fixes the stator to a fan shroud and is formed so as to cover a rear surface of the stator, with a fan body provided so as to integrally rotate with the rotation shaft and the rotor yoke. The fan body has a fan boss formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape so as to cover the rotor yoke from a front surface, and a plurality of blades that is provided protruding radially from an outer circumferential surface of the fan boss. A first labyrinth portion is provided between an opening portion of the fan boss and the fan shroud.

Abstract: An apparatus having a circuit is disclosed. The circuit may be configured to (i) receive an input signal from a communication channel and (ii) generate an intermediate signal by amplifying the input signal (a) by a low-frequency gain in response to an amplitude control signal and (b) by a high-frequency gain in response to a boost control signal.

Abstract: To enhance electromigration resistance of an electrode. A drain electrode is partially formed on a side surface of a drain pad. In this case, the drain electrode is integrated with the drain pad and extends from the side surface of the drain pad in a first direction (y direction). A recessed portion is located in a region overlapping with the drain electrode in a plan view. At least a part of the drain electrode is buried in the recessed portion. A side surface of the recessed portion, which faces the drain pad, enters the drain pad in the first direction (y direction).

Abstract: This liquid detergent contains an ?-sulfofatty acid ester salt (component (a)), an alkylbenzene sulfonate (component (b)), a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate (component (c)), and an alkanolamine (component (d)). The amount of the component (a) is 5% by mass or greater; the total amount of the component (b) and the component (c) is 5% by mass or greater; the total amount of the component (a), the component (b), and the component (c) is 10% by mass to 50% by mass, the mass ratio represented by (d)/(a) is 1/5 or greater, and the mass ratio represented by (a)/((b)+(c)) is 1 or less.

Abstract: An active inductor circuit includes a field-effect transistor having a first source/drain adapted for connection with a first voltage source, a capacitor coupled between the first voltage source and a gate of the field-effect transistor, a resistor coupled between a second source/drain of the field-effect transistor and the gate of the field-effect transistor, and a current source coupled with the gate of the field-effect transistor. A voltage headroom of the active inductor circuit is controlled as a function of at least one of a magnitude of current generated by the current source and a resistance of the resistor.

Abstract: An armature includes a core having a plurality of teeth, which are radially formed with a rotation axis as the center, a plurality of coils where each coil is wound around each set of teeth containing at least two teeth. The plurality of coils have a plurality of inside coils placed on a rotation axis side of the teeth and a plurality of outside coils placed outside the inside coils. The plurality of inside coils are circularly arranged so that inside coils adjacent to each other are not wound around the same tooth. The plurality of outside coils are circularly arranged so that outside coils adjacent to each other are not wound around the same tooth. The outside coils are wound around a second set of combinations of teeth, which are different from a first set of combinations of teeth around which the inside coils are wound.

Abstract: A compiling method for reading, by a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a source file therein and outputting an executable binary file, the compiling method including: a first step of receiving, by the computer, an interface file including a process and a module constructing a business process, input/output information of data of the business process being defined in the interface file, operation information for data set to be used in the business process being defined in the interface file; a second step of validating, by the computer, the operation information for the data set defined in the interface file; a third step of inhibiting, by the computer, generation of the executable binary file when a validation result is invalid; and a fourth step of generating, by the computer, the executable binary file from a source file containing the interface file when the validation result is valid.

Abstract: A receiver containing analog circuitry that generates distortion, a distortion compensation circuit coupled to an output of the analog circuitry, and a slicer, operating as a signal peak detector, coupled to the distortion compensation circuitry. The distortion compensation circuit has a subtractor, a function generator, and a weighting circuit. The subtractor has a first input coupled to the output of the analog circuitry, a second input, and an output. The function generator has an input coupled to the first input of the subtractor. The weighting circuit, responsive to a weighting coefficient, is coupled between an output of the function circuit and the second input of the first subtractor. The function generator has a transfer function with a third-power term and the weighting coefficient is set to a value based on the level of the signal peaks that will least partially reduce distortion in signals on the output of the subtractor.

Abstract: The invention is characterized in that, when protrusion parts 30 are raised from a substrate W and the protrusion parts 30 are formed into spacers 12 with a predetermined outer diameter D and height H, the protrusion parts 30 are temporarily formed so as to have a diameter larger than a predetermined outer diameter D and a height larger than a predetermined height H, and the protrusion parts 30 are crushed, and leading end portions 30b of the protrusion parts 30 are protruded in a radially outward direction so as to have a double-layered structure, and then through-holes 35 are opened at the leading end portions 30b. Accordingly, the leading end portions 30b have strength due to a double-layered structure, and side portions 30a also have high strength due to contraction by pressing, whereby the sleeve-integrated member includes the entirely high-strength spacers 12.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communicating section that executes communication with a server, a local storage section that stores subsequent data acquired from the server, and a data processing section that executes an acquisition process of the subsequent data, and a data playback process using data stored on a disc and the subsequent data stored on the local storage section. The data processing section builds a virtual file system for reading data stored on the disc and the local storage section, at the time of the data playback process, and performs the acquisition process of the subsequent data by transmitting a package ID to the server at the time of the acquisition process of the subsequent data, the package ID being information specifying a package corresponding to a file set necessary for building or updating the virtual file system.

Abstract: An apparatus having a circuit is disclosed. The circuit may be configured to (i) receive an input signal from a communication channel and (ii) generate an intermediate signal by amplifying the input signal (a) by a low-frequency gain in response to an amplitude control signal and (b) by a high-frequency gain in response to a boost control signal.

Abstract: Provided is: a cell culture membrane, which is free from materials derived from living organisms, can easily be industrially mass-produced, exhibits superior long-term storage properties and chemical resistance, has excellent cell adhesion properties and long-term culture properties and is capable of replicating a cell adhesion morphology that is similar to that of collagen derived from living organisms and being used for conventional cell cultivation. Also provided are a cell culture substrate, and a method for manufacturing the cell culture substrate. In the present invention, as a cell adhesion layer, a polymer membrane represented by formula (I) is formed on the base of a cell culture substrate so as to have a membrane thickness equal to or greater than 0.2 ?m (in the formula, R1 and R2 represent a —(CH2)n—NH2 moiety (n is an integer of 1-10 inclusive.) or H, with at least one of R1 and R2 being a —(CH2)n—NH2 moiety. Moreover, l and m are positive integers expressing polymerization degree).

Abstract: A variable gain amplifier (VGA) useful in a receiver that recovers transmitted digital signals. A first amplifier in the VGA has a first gain, an input coupled to an input of the VGA, and an output coupled to a load. A second amplifier in the VGA has a second gain, an input coupled to the input of the VGA, and an output coupled to the load. In a first mode of operation, the first gain is substantially zero and the second gain ranges between a maximum gain and a fraction of the maximum gain. In a second mode of operation the first gain is substantially the maximum gain and the second gain ranges between the maximum gain and the fraction of the maximum gain, and an algebraic sum of the first gain and second gain is no greater than the maximum gain to reduce non-linear distortion at low VGA gain.

Abstract: A receiver containing analog circuitry that generates distortion, a distortion compensation circuit coupled to an output of the analog circuitry, and a slicer, operating as a signal peak detector, coupled to the distortion compensation circuitry. The distortion compensation circuit has a subtractor, a function generator, and a weighting circuit. The subtractor has a first input coupled to the output of the analog circuitry, a second input, and an output. The function generator has an input coupled to the first input of the subtractor. The weighting circuit, responsive to a weighting coefficient, is coupled between an output of the function circuit and the second input of the first subtractor. The function generator has a transfer function with a third-power term and the weighting coefficient is set to a value based on the level of the signal peaks that will least partially reduce distortion in signals on the output of the subtractor.