Abstract: A first connection circuit (108) is adjusted to cancel out mutual coupling impedance occurring between a first antenna element (106) in a first frequency band and a second antenna element (107) in a second frequency band, and reduces a degradation occurring due to the coupling between the antenna elements. A second frequency band cutoff circuit (111) for the second frequency band is provided between the first antenna element (106) and the first feeding portion (104).

Abstract: The liquid substance advancing container is constructed such that the piston is formed of a sealing part in a front part of the piston that comes in sliding contact with an inner wall of a reservoir of the barrel body and a bar member in the rear part of the piston that has a threaded section on the inner or outer periphery, is movable in a axial direction and is restrained form moving with respect to the rotational direction, a front bar-like part extended forward from the handle is formed with a threaded section that is directly or indirectly screw-fitted to the threaded section of the bar member in the rear part of the piston, and, as the handle is rotated relative to the barrel body, the piston advances and then after full advance of the piston the front bar-like part can extend and retract by multiple stages.

Abstract: A second slit 117 and a fourth slit 119 provided in a first antenna element 150 and a first slit 116 and a third slit 118 provided in a second antenna element 151 are adjusted such that the mutual coupling between the first antenna element 150 and the second antenna element 151 in the desired frequency band is canceled, and reduces degradation in coupling between antenna elements without connecting the antenna elements through components and the like. With such a configuration, it is possible to achieve high-efficiency loosely coupled MIMO array antennas operating in the same frequency band in a portable wireless terminal.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle air conditioning apparatus that can prevent the amount of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor from reducing when an outside air temperature is low to achieve a heating performance required for a heating operation, and also can dehumidify the vehicle interior without deteriorating the heating performance during a heating and dehumidifying operation. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: a heat released refrigerant expansion valve that decompresses the refrigerant discharged from the radiator during the heating operation and the first heating and dehumidifying operation; a gas-liquid separator that separates the refrigerant decompressed by the heat released refrigerant expansion valve into a gaseous refrigerant and a liquid refrigerant; and a bypass circuit that allows part of at least the gaseous refrigerant separated in the gas-liquid separator to flow into a section of the compressor through which the refrigerant being decompressed passes.

Abstract: A first antenna element is embodied in a blanched structure, and a second antenna element is embodied in a blanched structure. A low coupling circuit for increasing susceptance with an increase in frequency is interposed between the first antenna element and the second antenna element. The first antenna element and the second antenna element exhibit resonance of a Y12 component of an admittance matrix between first and second frequencies and between second and third frequencies. The first branch element and the third branch element assume a value of nearly a quarter of a resonant electrical length of the Y12 component of the admittance matrix between the first and second frequencies. The second branch element and the fourth branch element assume a value of nearly a quarter of the resonant electrical length of the Y12 component of the admittance matrix between the second and third frequencies.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a carotenoid, which comprises culturing a carotenoid-producing bacterium in an amino acid-supplemented medium, and collecting the carotenoid from the resulting cultured product, wherein the amino acid is at least one selected, from the group consisting of glutamic acid, aspartic acid, glutamine, asparagine, alanine, glycine, serine, threonine, arginine, tyrosine, proline, phenylalanine and leucine, and salts thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid cosmetic which is stored in a liquid cosmetic applicator using a brush or a pen feed as an applying means and which is excellent in a dispersion stability of black iron oxide used as a black pigment, a hue of the black color and a discharge performance. The above liquid cosmetic comprises at least 1 to 30% by mass of black iron oxide, water, 0.5 to 5% by mass of a dispersant comprising a film-formable resin, 2 to 15% by mass (in terms of a solid content) of a film-forming agent, 0.1 to 3% by mass of a surfactant, 0.05 to 5% by mass of volatile alcohol, and 5 to 20% by mass of glycols, wherein a viscosity thereof measured at a temperature of 25° C. and a shear rate of 3.83 s?1 by means of an ELD type viscometer falls in a range of 2 to 10 mPa·s; and an observed average particle diameter is 100 to 300 nm.

Abstract: A first connection circuit (108) is adjusted to cancel out mutual coupling impedance occurring between a first antenna element (106) in a first frequency band and a second antenna element (107) in a second frequency band, and reduces a degradation occurring due to the coupling between the antenna elements. A second frequency band cutoff circuit (111) for the second frequency band is provided between the first antenna element (106) and the first feeding portion (104).

Abstract: A first antenna element is embodied in a blanched structure, and a second antenna element is embodied in a blanched structure. A low coupling circuit for increasing susceptance with an increase in frequency is interposed between the first antenna element and the second antenna element. The first antenna element and the second antenna element exhibit resonance of a Y12 component of an admittance matrix between first and second frequencies and between second and third frequencies. The first branch element and the third branch element assume a value of nearly a quarter of a resonant electrical length of the Y12 component of the admittance matrix between the first and second frequencies. The second branch element and the fourth branch element assume a value of nearly a quarter of the resonant electrical length of the Y12 component of the admittance matrix between the second and third frequencies.

Abstract: A first connection circuit 114 is adjusted to cancel the impedance of the mutual coupling between a first antenna element 150 and a second antenna element 151 in the range from the first frequency band to the second frequency band, thereby reducing degradation in the coupling between the antenna elements. With such a configuration, it is possible to achieve high-efficiency loosely coupled antennas operating in the same wide frequency band in a portable wireless terminal.

Abstract: The connection circuit 108 reduces degradation in the coupling between the antenna elements by performing adjustment to cancel the mutual coupling between the first antenna element 106 and the second antenna element 107 in a first frequency band. Concurrently, the length 110 of the short side of the first antenna element and the length 109 of the short side of the second antenna element are set to predetermined lengths which are different, thereby reducing the amounts of current which does not contribute to radiation. With such a configuration, it is possible to achieve high-efficiency loosely coupled MIMO array antennas operating in the same frequency in a portable wireless terminal.

Abstract: A second slit 117 and a fourth slit 119 provided in a first antenna element 150 and a first slit 116 and a third slit 118 provided in a second antenna element 151 are adjusted such that the mutual coupling between the first antenna element 150 and the second antenna element 151 in the desired frequency band is canceled, and reduces degradation in coupling between antenna elements without connecting the antenna elements through components and the like. With such a configuration, it is possible to achieve high-efficiency loosely coupled MIMO array antennas operating in the same frequency band in a portable wireless terminal.

Abstract: A first connection circuit (108) is controlled so as to cancel mutual coupling impedance existing between a first antenna element (106) and a second antenna element (107) at a first frequency band, thereby lessening deterioration of coupling between the antenna elements. A second connection circuit (111) is controlled so as to cancel mutual coupling impedance existing between a first passive element (109) and a second passive element (110) at a second frequency band, thereby lessening deterioration of coupling between the passive elements. By means of the configuration, it is possible to implement a low-coupling antenna that operates at two frequency bands in a wireless mobile terminal.

Abstract: Among a plurality of bearings that rotatably support a camshaft (1), the bearing closest to a pulley (P) is a rolling bearing (4), and the other bearings are plain bearings (3). The rolling bearing (4) is formed of a roller bearing portion (5) that has a first outer ring raceway surface (51) and a plurality of cylindrical rollers (53) that roll on the first outer ring raceway surface (51) and a ball bearing portion (6) that is arranged next to the roller bearing portion (5) in an axial direction and that has a second outer ring raceway surface (61) and a plurality of balls (63) that roll on the second outer ring raceway surface (61). The first outer ring raceway surface (51) and the second outer ring raceway surface (61) are formed on the inner peripheral surface (7a) of a single outer ring (7).

Abstract: An optical compensatory film of a laminated structure comprising a first optically anisotropic layer having an Re(550) of 20 to 100 nm wherein retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm is never 0 nm along any direction and the direction along which the absolute value of retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm reaches minimum does not exist along the normal direction of the layer or on the in-plane of the layer; and a second optically anisotropic layer having an Re(550) of 20 to 150 nm and an Rth(550) of 40 to 110 nm with Re(450) Re(550)<?3 nm and Rth(450)?Rth(550)>3 nm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a portable wireless device which can receive signals at a wideband with good sensitivity, and change a narrowband wherein signals are received with high sensitivity. In this device, a wireless unit (105) demodulates signals received by an antenna (101) or modulates signals to be transmitted by the antenna (101). Matching circuits (103-1 to 103-n) are connected between the antenna (101) and the wireless unit (105) and match impedance so that the impedance of the antenna (101) and the impedance of the wireless unit (105) have a complex conjugate relation. A plurality of these are respectively provided for a plurality of different frequency bands where matching is performed.

Abstract: A camshaft device (10) includes a camshaft (11) onto which a cam (18) is fitted; a plurality of rolling bearings (12) that are fitted at intervals in an axial direction onto this camshaft (11); and a support frame (13) that is mounted on a cylinder head (15) of an engine, and that has a plurality of bearing holes (25) which are formed on the same axis and into which the rolling bearings (12) fitted, and that rotatably supports the camshaft (11) via the rolling bearings (12) that are fitted into the bearing holes (25). The support frame (13) is formed by connecting a plurality of split bodies (27), (28) together, and the plurality of split bodies (27), (28) includes a first split body (27) on which a plurality of first concave portions (29) that form half of the bearing holes (25) is integrally formed, and a second split body (28) on which a plurality of second concave portions (30) that form the other half of the bearing holes (25) is integrally formed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a carotenoid, which comprises culturing a carotenoid-producing bacterium in an amino acid-supplemented medium, and collecting the carotenoid from the resulting cultured product, wherein the amino acid is at least one selected, from the group consisting of glutamic acid, aspartic acid, glutamine, asparagine, alanine, glycine, serine, threonine, arginine, tyrosine, proline, phenylalanine and leucine, and salts thereof

Abstract: A mobile wireless apparatus wherein matching circuits can be independently designed, while the increase in the circuit scale can be suppressed and the cost can be reduced. In this apparatus, a filter (102) suppresses a frequency band (f2-f3) of signals received by an antenna element (101). A filter (105) suppresses a frequency band (f1) of the signals received by the antenna element (101). A wireless unit (104) acquires data that is obtained by demodulating the signals obtained by suppressing the frequency band (f2-f3) and superimposing the demodulated signals on the signals of the frequency band (f1). A wireless unit (107) acquires data that is obtained by demodulating the signals obtained by suppressing the frequency band (f1) and superimposing the demodulated signals on the signals of the frequency band (f2-f3). A matching circuit (103), which is connected between the filter (102) and the wireless unit (104), matches the impedances of the filter (102) and wireless unit (104).

Abstract: A Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) operation circuit includes plural storages for storing the variables of the SHA calculation, a permutation section for permuting the output signals of the storages, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a temporary value by the use of the output signals of the storages and a data segment successively extracted from input data from which the hash value is to be obtained. When each data segment is processed, some of the storages are supplied with no clock signal and thereby maintain the values stored therein without change. The SHA operation circuit is thus capable of saving power.