Abstract: A photodetector includes a first cell for converting incident light into electric charges, the first cell including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and a first substrate interposing the first semiconductor layer with the second semiconductor layer; and a second cell for converting incident light into electric charges, the second cell including a third semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer, and a second substrate interposing the third semiconductor layer with the fourth semiconductor layer; wherein the second substrate is larger in thickness than the first substrate.

Abstract: A photodetector includes a first cell for converting incident light into electric charges, the first cell including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and a first substrate interposing the first semiconductor layer with the second semiconductor layer; and a second cell for converting incident light into electric charges, the second cell including a third semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer, and a second substrate interposing the third semiconductor layer with the fourth semiconductor layer; wherein the second substrate is larger in thickness than the first substrate.

Abstract: A process for producing propylene, which including feeding at least one of dimethyl ether and methanol to a reactor to be reacted in the presence of a catalyst; supplying an obtained reaction product to a separator by which low-boiling compounds having a boiling point of ?50° C. or lower at atmospheric pressure among the reaction product are separated; and recycling a proportion of at least 70% of a total amount of the separated low-boiling compounds to said reactor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an organic light-emitting diode including an anode and a cathode which are arranged apart from each other, an emissive layer arranged between the anode and the cathode including a blue emissive layer located at the anode side and a green and red emissive layer located at the cathode side, the blue emissive layer containing a host material and a blue fluorescent dopant, and the green and red emissive layer containing a host material and a green phosphorescent dopant and/or a red phosphorescent dopant.

Abstract: A game system is disclosed that comprises a server system and a game parlor connected to the server system through a network, the server system forming and retaining a unit price schedule data that set a unit price for a predetermined unit time, the game parlor including a plurality of game terminals connected to a parlor LAN, and a parlor server, the game parlor retaining corresponding unit price schedule data sent from the server system to the parlor server, the plurality of game terminals accessing the parlor server at a time interval shorter than the predetermined unit time to acquire unit price information in accordance with the unit price schedule.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a photodetector includes a substrate, a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region, an insulating film, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a shield film. The first semiconductor region is provided on a major surface of the substrate. The second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region are provided in a substantially identical plane to the first semiconductor region. The second semiconductor region is contacted with the first semiconductor region and has an impurity concentration higher than the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is contacted with the second semiconductor region. The shield film is provided on the insulating film and electrically connected to the first electrode. A periphery of the shield film is disposed to cover an interface between the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region in a planar view.

Abstract: A process for producing propylene, which including feeding at least one of dimethyl ether and methanol to a reactor to be reacted in the presence of a catalyst; supplying an obtained reaction product to a separator by which low-boiling compounds having a boiling point of ?50° C. or lower at atmospheric pressure among the reaction product are separated; and recycling a proportion of at least 70% of a total amount of the separated low-boiling compounds to said reactor.

Abstract: A method for producing propylene including: transferring a feed gas including dimethyl ether and/or methanol and C4 and/or C5 olefins into a reactor, and reacting the feed gas in the presence of a catalyst, the feed gas prior to transferring into the reactor having a (supplied C4 and/or C5 olefins)/(supplied dimethyl ether and methanol) ratio of 0.25 to 7.5, in terms of the molar ratio based on the number of carbon atoms, and the feed gas being contacted with the catalyst at 350° C. to 600° C.; and an apparatus for producing propylene including: a hydrogenation reactor in which alkynes and/or dienes contained in C4 and/or C5 hydrocarbons is partially hydrogenated to be converted into an olefin having one double bond; a reactor in which C4 and/or C5 hydrocarbons is reacted with dimethyl ether and/or methanol in the presence of a catalyst; and a separator for separating propylene from the reaction product.

Abstract: The present invention provides a game machine authentication management device and a game device for transmitting an authentication request and ID data to an authentication server through first communication means, waiting for a response including the authentication result data in a reception-enabled state, acquiring authentication level data capable of indicating any one of the events of authentication OK, authentication NG and timeout, transmitting electronic money terminal setting data and an electronic money operation instruction according to the authentication level data to an electronic money terminal through second communication means or third communication means, and suspending the electronic money terminal setting data and the electronic money operation instruction in at least one of the cases. The electronic money terminal setting data may be stored in a penalty setting server or the like.

Abstract: A thin-film photodiode has a substrate, a thin-film element formed on the substrate and a micro lens formed above the thin-film element. The thin-film element includes a first semiconductor layer of p-type semiconductor formed on the substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed in contact with the first semiconductor layer on the substrate and formed of i-type semiconductor or p-type semiconductor having lower impurity concentration than the first semiconductor layer and a third semiconductor layer formed of an n-type semiconductor layer formed in contact with the second semiconductor layer on the substrate. The position of an optical axis center of the lens is set between a boundary between the second and third semiconductor layers and a lateral center of the second semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A game system is disclosed that comprises a server system and a game parlor connected to the server system through a network, the server system forming and retaining a unit price schedule data that set a unit price for a predetermined unit time, the game parlor including a plurality of game terminals connected to a parlor LAN, and a parlor server, the game parlor retaining corresponding unit price schedule data sent from the server system to the parlor server, the plurality of game terminals accessing the parlor server at a time interval shorter than the predetermined unit time to acquire unit price information in accordance with the unit price schedule.

Abstract: Provided is a game machine including a portable phone terminal having a non-contact IC chip including an electronic money storage unit and a game point storage unit; an electronic money processing terminal capable of downloading, in a non-contact manner, to an electronic money amount storage unit the amount of electronic money purchased; a selection unit for selecting whether to conduct the settlement for executing the game application program based on the electronic money or the game points; a processing unit enabling the input of the amount of electronic money or game points necessary in executing the game application program to the settlement processing unit from the respective storage units of the IC chip, and a point generation unit for generating the acquired points according to the game execution status.

Abstract: A communication game equipment is provided, which is capable of implementing a system for performing real time communication multiplayer communication and real time management monitoring communication while concurrently keeping an equipment load level. The communication game equipment including a main system having a main CPU, which controls execution of games by game programs; and a communication sub-system having a sub-CPU, which executes a plurality of different communication function tasks, wherein the communication sub-system is provided with a shared memory accessible by the main CPU and the sub-CPU, the communication sub-system having a resource management task function, which manages resources of the shared memory for the plurality of different communication function tasks.

Abstract: There is provided a superconducting device including a substrate, a first superconductor layer supported by the substrate and containing Ln, AE, M and O, and a second superconductor layer containing a material represented by a formula of (Yb1−yLn′y)AE′2M′3Oz, the first and second superconductor layers forming a junction, and atomic planes each including M and O in the first superconductor layer and atomic planes each including M′ and O in the second superconductor layer being discontinuous to each other in a position of the junction, wherein each of Ln and Ln′ represents at least one metal of Y and lanthanoids, each of AE and AE′ represents at least one of alkaline earth metals, each of M and M′ represents a metal which contains 80 atomic % or more of Cu, y represents a value between 0 and 0.9, and z represents a value between 6.0 and 8.0.

Abstract: A method for generating polygon data from NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) data representing a parametric surface and an image display apparatus using that method are disclosed. In the method for generating polygon data, NURBS object data are coordinate-converted to coordinates having the viewing point as the origin, in correspondence with the advance of a program. Furthermore, the level of detail wherewith the object is drawn on the display is determined, the number of divisions into polygons when converting NURBS object data to objects configured by polygons is found, according to the determined level of detail wherewith objects are drawn, and vertices of polygons converted to according to that number of divisions are computed.

Abstract: The present invention aims to reverse and transport a card in an automated card game machine, and relates to a card reversing device that reverses and transports each card, with no one touching the card. The present invention also relates to such a card game machine and a card reversing method. Each card placed on a card placement unit of a table is pulled by the magnetic force of a magnetic circuit having three electromagnet units. Accordingly, when a slider that supports the magnetic circuit is moved by a card transportation mechanism, the card slides on the upper surface of the card placement unit as if to follow the movement of the magnetic circuit. With one end portion of the card being attracted to the center electromagnet unit, the card is reversed by 180 degrees by the repulsive force generated between the other end portion of the card and the left-side electromagnet unit.

Abstract: There is provided a superconducting device including a substrate, a first superconductor layer supported by the substrate and containing Ln, AE, M and O, and a second superconductor layer containing a material represented by a formula of (Yb1−yLn′y)AE′2M′3Oz, the first and second superconductor layers forming a junction, and atomic planes each including M and O in the first superconductor layer and atomic planes each including M′ and O in the second superconductor layer being discontinuous to each other in a position of the junction, wherein each of Ln and Ln′ represents at least one metal of Y and lanthanoids, each of AE and AE′ represents at least one of alkaline earth metals, each of M and M′ represents a metal which contains 80 atomic % or more of Cu, y represents a value between 0 and 0.9, and z represents a value between 6.0 and 8.0.

Abstract: The invention relates to pyridonecarboxylic acid derivatives represented by the general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is --OH, a carboxy-protecting group or (alkyl)amino group, R.sup.2 is H, or --NO.sub.2, (protected) amino, (protected) hydroxyl, lower alkyl or lower alkoxyl group, R.sup.3 is a halogen atom, H, or --NO.sub.2, lower alkyl, lower alkoxyl or amino group, R.sup.4 is an azido, (substituted) hydrazino, (substituted) amino, lower alkoxyl or hydroxyl group, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are independently H, --NO.sub.2, halogen atom or lower alkyl group, R.sup.8 is a --NO.sub.2, (substituted) amino, --OH or lower alkoxyl group, A is N or C--R.sup.12, in which R.sup.12 is H, halogen atom, or (substituted) lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, lower alkoxyl, lower alkylthio or nitro group, and B is N or C--R.sup.13, in which R.sup.13 is H or halogen atom, or salts thereof, and medicine comprising such a compound as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Phenylenediamines represented by general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group or an optionally substituted aralkyl group, X.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, and X.sup.2 represents a halogen atom; salts thereof, and a process for preparing the same. The compounds are useful as intermediates for synthesis of pyridonecarboxylic acid derivatives useful as antibacterial agents.

Abstract: The invention provides a pyridonecarboxylic acid derivative of the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or carboxy protecting group, R.sup.2 is a nitro or substituted or unsubstituted amino group, R.sup.3 is a halogen atom, each of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, lower alkyl group or lower alkoxy group, A is a nitrogen atom or --CX.dbd. wherein X is a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, lower alkyl group or lower alkoxy group, and Z is a halogen atom or a saturated cyclic amino group which may have a substituent, or a salt thereof and an antibacterial agent comprising the same.