Abstract: A service registration system includes a server that provides a service through a network, a peripheral device capable of communicating with the server and using the service, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the server and the peripheral device. When the terminal device receives the registration requesting information representing information related to registration necessary for using the service from a user, the terminal device transmits registration requesting information to the server. When the server receives the registration requesting information from the terminal device, the server transmits service information necessary for using the service. Further, the terminal device can transmit the service information to the peripheral device when it receives the service information from the server.

Abstract: The light-emitting device includes: a substrate which has a single layer structure in which a conductive member is partially provided on a surface of the substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements which are directly provided on the surface of the substrate so as to be electrically connected with the conductive member; a first light reflection resin layer; a second light reflection resin layer which is provided in a looped shape on the surface of the substrate so as to surround an area in which the plurality of light-emitting elements are provided; and a sealing resin which covers the plurality of light-emitting elements.

Abstract: An image processing device is configured to provide a service relating to at least one of (1) the image data generated by the function of the image processing device and (2) image data representing the image to be formed, in response to a request from the image processing device. The image processing device may include a parameter designating unit, a service request unit, and a function implementation unit that is adapted to implement the function of the image processing device based on the service providing parameter designated by the parameter designating unit. The service providing device is provided with a service provision executing unit that is adapted to execute a process to provide the service to the image processing device after receiving the request from the service request unit provided to the image processing device.

Abstract: The light-emitting device includes: a substrate which has a single layer structure in which a conductive member is partially provided on a surface of the substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements which are directly provided on the surface of the substrate so as to be electrically connected with the conductive member; a first light reflection resin layer; a second light reflection resin layer which is provided in a looped shape on the surface of the substrate so as to surround an area in which the plurality of light-emitting elements are provided; and a sealing resin which covers the plurality of light-emitting elements.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated ceramic capacitor by firing a laminated body which includes dielectric ceramic layers containing a dielectric ceramic raw material powder and internal electrodes. The firing is carried out in accordance with a temperature profile in which the average rate of temperature rise is 40° C./second or more from room temperature to a maximum temperature. The dielectric ceramic raw material powder contains a BaTiO3 system as its main constituent, and contains R (R is Sc, etc.), M (M is Mn, etc.), and Mg as accessory constituents, in which, when the total amount of the accessory constituents contained is denoted by D parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent, an the specific surface area of the main constituent is denoted by E m2/g, then D/E is 0.2 to 0.8.

Abstract: A service registration system includes a server that provides a service through a network, a peripheral device capable of communicating with the server and using the service, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the server and the peripheral device. When the terminal device receives the registration requesting information representing information related to registration necessary for using the service from a user, the terminal device transmits registration requesting information to the server. When the server receives the registration requesting information from the terminal device, the server transmits service information necessary for using the service. Further, the terminal device can transmit the service information to the peripheral device when it receives the service information from the server.

Abstract: An image processing device is configured to provide a service relating to at least one of (1) the image data generated by the function of the image processing device and (2) image data representing the image to be formed, in response to a request from the image processing device. The image processing device may include a parameter designating unit, a service request unit, and a function implementation unit that is adapted to implement the function of the image processing device based on the service providing parameter designated by the parameter designating unit. The service providing device is provided with a service provision executing unit that is adapted to execute a process to provide the service to the image processing device after receiving the request from the service request unit provided to the image processing device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated ceramic capacitor by firing a laminated body which includes dielectric ceramic layers containing a dielectric ceramic raw material powder and internal electrodes. The firing is carried out in accordance with a temperature profile in which the average rate of temperature rise is 40° C./second or more from room temperature to a maximum temperature. The dielectric ceramic raw material powder contains a BaTiO3 system as its main constituent, and contains R (R is Sc, etc.), M (M is Mn, etc.), and Mg as accessory constituents, in which, when the total amount of the accessory constituents contained is denoted by D parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent, an the specific surface area of the main constituent is denoted by E m2/g, then D/E is 0.2 to 0.8.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device which has a first communication system that communicates with an external telephone device and a second communication system that communicates with an external computer. The communication device comprises a call unit and a data acquisition unit. The call unit makes a call to a telephone device designated by a user using the first communication system. If a destination of the call unit is decided by the user's designation, a data acquisition unit obtains data corresponding to the destination telephone device using the second communication system. By only making a call operation, the user can obtain the data corresponding to the destination telephone device from the communication device through the computer network which is a different kind of network from the telephone line network. That is, the communication device can reduce user's operations to access related devices over various kinds of networks.

Abstract: A printing system, comprising a detecting system, which detects from a content to be printed a link destination address as an address assigned to information being associated with the content, a code symbol generating system, which generates a code symbol representing the link destination address detected by the detecting system in a format recognizable to a code symbol reader, a print control system, which controls the code symbol generated by the code symbol generating system to be appended to the content and a printer unit included in the print control system to print the contents along with the appended code symbol.

Abstract: A substrate-type LED light source (10) includes: at least one blue LED chip (2) which has an emission peak in a range from 400 nm to 480 nm so as to correspond to a blue light region absorption peak of chlorophyll; a red phosphor (7b) which emit, upon receiving excitation light from the at least one blue LED chip (2), light having a peak wavelength in a range from 620 nm to 700 nm so as to correspond to a red light region absorption peak of chlorophyll; and a resin layer (7) in which the red phosphor 7b is dispersed and which covers the at least one blue LED chip (2).

Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor which provides favorable properties and characteristics such as dielectric characteristics, insulation properties, temperature characteristics, and high temperature load characteristics and provides favorable thermal shock resistance, even when dielectric ceramic layers are reduced in layer thickness to increase the number of layers has dielectric ceramic layers containing, as their main constituent, a barium titanate based compound represented by the general formula ABO3 and internal electrodes containing Ni as their main constituent, which are stacked alternately. A crystalline oxide containing at least Mg and Li is present in at least either one of the internal electrodes and the dielectric ceramic layers. The crystalline oxide is preferably present mostly in contact with Ni in the internal electrodes.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic (and capacitor containing it) balancing high temperature load characteristics and temperature characteristics of capacitance even when layer thickness is less than 1 ?m has a mixture of different crystal grains containing a barium titanate compound as the main constituent. The first crystal grains can contain rare earth element solid solution region 1 at the surface layer section. The second crystal grains have a core-shell structure including a shell section having a rare earth element solid solution present. The first and second crystal grains are 12% to 84% f and 16% to 88%, respectively, of the total number of crystal grains.

Abstract: A communication apparatus as one of first communication apparatuses belonging to a first communication network, for communicating with another of the first communication apparatuses via the first communication network, and with one or more second communication apparatuses via a second communication network, the communication apparatus as the one first communication apparatus including a communication portion which communicates with the different first communication apparatus via the first communication network, and with the one or more second communication apparatuses via the second communication network, and a control portion which controls the communication portion to communicate with the different first communication apparatus via the first communication network, in a first control manner, and controls the communication portion to communicate with the one or more second communication apparatuses via the second communication network, in a second control manner different from the first control manner.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention has an insulating substrate in which a first concave hole for mounting an LED chip and a second concave hole for connecting a metallic small-gauge wire are formed, where a metallic sheet that serves as a first wiring pattern is formed at a portion that includes the first concave hole, a metallic sheet that serves as a second wiring pattern is formed at a portion that includes the second concave hole, an LED chip is mounted upon the metallic sheet inside the first concave hole, the LED chip is electrically connected to the metallic sheet inside the second concave hole via a metallic small-gauge wire, and the chip-type LED is sealed with a clear resin.

Abstract: An illumination device with a toning function in which possibility of moisture and dust intruding into the case is reduced with a simple mechanism is realized.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor which provides favorable life characteristics, even when a high electric field strength is applied while dielectric ceramic layers are reduced in layer thickness to less than 1 ?m, contains a dielectric ceramic a compound represented by: (Ba1-x/100Cax/100)mTiO3 (0?x?20) as its main constituent, and as its accessory constituent, aMg-bSi-cMn-dR (R is at least one of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and Y, and a, b, c, and d (part by mol) respectively satisfy the conditions of 0.1<a?20.0, 0.5<b?20.0, 0.1<c?10.0, and 1.0<d?30.0 with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent). The average grain size is 20 nm or more and less than 100 nm for crystal grains in a sintered body obtained by firing the dielectric ceramic.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a substrate; an LED chip provided on a main surface of the substrate; and a printed resistor element connected in parallel with the LED chip, the printed resistor element being provided in at least one of regions (i) on the main surface of the substrate, (ii) on a back surface of the substrate, and (iii) inside the substrate. According to the arrangement, it is possible to provide: a light emitting device which can emit light having preferable luminance without a reduction in optical output by suppressing light shielding and light absorption of light emitted from the LED toward the outside; and a method for manufacturing the light emitting device.

Abstract: A contents providing system includes a communication unit, a print control unit, an expendable amount deriving unit and an expendable amount storing control unit. The communication unit communicates with a contents server having contents data. The print control unit controls a printer to print the contents data and output a printed material imaging the contents data if the communication unit receives the contents data from the contents server. The expendable amount deriving unit derives an amount of an expendable item required for imaging the contents data in the printer. The expendable amount deriving unit derives the amount of the expendable item in accordance with a size of an image printed by the printer. The expendable amount storing control unit stores information representing the amount of the expendable item derived by the expendable amount deriving unit in a memory unit.

Abstract: A communication system includes a printing apparatus and a data transmitting apparatus configured to transmit image data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a recording medium information obtaining unit that obtains information identifying the recording medium on which an image has not be printed normally, and a retransmission requesting unit that requests the data transmitting apparatus to retransmit image data corresponding to the recording medium on which an image has not been printed normally in accordance with the recording medium information. The data transmitting apparatus includes an image data storage unit that stores the image data transmitted to the printing apparatus, and an image data retransmitting unit configured such that, when retransmission of the image data is requested by the printing apparatus, the image data retransmitting unit retrieves the image data from the image data storing unit and transmits te same to the printing apparatus.