Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.

Abstract: A magnesium alloy which has excellent tensile strength and elongation at a room temperature, as well as an excellent heat resistance represented by creep resistance is obtained. The magnesium alloy is produced which comprises 3.0% by mass or more and less than 6.0% by mass of Al, 0.10% by mass or more and 0.60% by mass or less of Mn, more than 0.50% by mass and less than 2.0% by mass of Ca, and more than 0.10% by mass and less than 0.40% by mass of Si, and has a balance composed of Mg and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A position obtaining device includes a processor. The processor, in response to a condition being met, derives a first attitude angle as an attitude angle of the device based on first light sources and positions thereof on an image obtained by a first camera; in response to the attitude angle of the device being known, derives a three-dimensional position of the device based on two or more second light sources and positions thereof on an image obtained by a second camera, and in response to a predetermined number of second light sources or more being captured in the image, derives the three-dimensional position and a second attitude angle as the attitude angle of the device; and integrates a result of the first attitude angle and a result of the three-dimensional position and the second attitude angle to estimate the attitude angle and the three-dimensional position of the device.

Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).

Abstract: An HEMS 700 provided in a consumer having independently operable power supply means (PV 100, storage battery 200, PCS 400 and the like) and at least one load 300, for controlling the power supply means and the load 300, determines an during-independent-operation schedule that is an operation schedule of the load during the independent operation on the basis of a period when the independent operation is performed, a power supply status of the power supply means, and a status of the load 300.

Abstract: The invention provides a multi-coil unit including first, second, . . . , (n?1)-th, and n-th coil elements corresponding to a number n of quantization bits of a digital signal, the coil elements including coil wires of a same length. The multi-coil unit has a winding structure in which the coil wires are wound a plurality of times to be stacked in a magnetic flux direction to form a plurality of tires.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting head that can eject a solution; a rotational body that has a circumferential surface which can accommodate the solution ejected from the ejecting head; a scraper that can come into sliding contact with the circumferential surface of the rotational body; and an accommodation container that accommodates the solution which is scraped off from the circumferential surface by the scraper. The accommodation container has a liquid storage section that stores a liquid which can dissolve a solute component of the solution.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting head that can eject a solution; a rotational body that has a circumferential surface which can accommodate the solution ejected from the ejecting head; a scraper that can come into sliding contact with the circumferential surface of the rotational body; and an accommodation container that accommodates the solution which is scraped off from the circumferential surface by the scraper. The accommodation container has a liquid storage section that stores a liquid which can dissolve a solute component of the solution.

Abstract: A jointing structure comprising multiple steps provided face to face at the coaxially built traveling path ends with an expansion gap between, multiple elastic members respectively mounted inside the multiple steps, and a joint block mounted on the multiple elastic members across the expansion gap. Multiple supporting blocks and one or more than one intermediate joint block are mounted inside the multiple steps with the joint block between. The multiple supporting blocks, the joint block and the one or more than one intermediate joint block are of concrete. The elastic members are joined together across the expansion gap. The elastic member on one side is fixed to the inside of the step on one side and then subjected to deformation toward the bridge girder axis, and thereafter, the elastic member on the other side is fixed to the inside of the step on the other side.

Abstract: The invention provides a multi-coil unit including first, second, . . . , (n?1)-th, and n-th coil elements corresponding to a number n of quantization bits of a digital signal, the coil elements including coil wires of a same length. The multi-coil unit has a winding structure in which the coil wires are wound a plurality of turns to be stacked in a magnetic flux direction to form a plurality of tires.

Abstract: A connection method connects an optical connector and an optical transmission element. The optical connector includes a connector housing, a stop-ring structure, and an optical fiber which protrudes from an end part of the stop-ring structure. The optical transmission element includes a tensile-strength fiber body. The connection method includes fuse-connecting a first end of the optical fiber with a second end of an optical fiber protruding from a transmission element terminal part of the optical transmission element; inserting a fuse-connected optical fiber part and the tensile strength fiber body inside a reinforcing sleeve provided with a hot melt body, and covering and bridging the transmission element terminal part and at least the end part of the stop-ring structure; and integrating the fuse-connected optical fiber part, the tensile strength fiber body, the transmission element terminal part, and the stop-ring structure, by a hot melt resin melted from the hot melt body.

Abstract: A polyamide resin comprising a dicarboxylic acid constitutional unit comprising an adipic acid unit and a diamine constitutional unit comprising a pentamethylenediamine unit and a hexamethylenediamine unit wherein a weight ratio of the pentamethylenediamine unit to the hexamethylenediamine unit being in the range of 95:5 to 60:40; a vibration-welded molded product having an excellent vibration welding strength, a hinged molded product and a binding band having an excellent low-temperature toughness, and a filament having an excellent transparency which are obtained from the polyamide resin; and a hinged molded product comprising a polyamide resin constituted of an adipic acid unit and a pentamethylenediamine unit.

Abstract: A jointing structure comprising multiple steps provided face to face at the coaxially built traveling path ends with an expansion gap between, multiple elastic members respectively mounted inside the multiple steps, and a joint block mounted on the multiple elastic members across the expansion gap. Multiple supporting blocks and one or more than one intermediate joint block are mounted inside the multiple steps with the joint block between. The multiple supporting blocks, the joint block and the one or more than one intermediate joint block are of concrete. The elastic members are joined together across the expansion gap. The elastic member on one side is fixed to the inside of the step on one side and then subjected to deformation toward the bridge girder axis, and thereafter, the elastic member on the other side is fixed to the inside of the step on the other side.

Abstract: To provide a polyamide resin excellent in lasting thermal stability and having a high biomass ratio. A polyamide resin comprising adipic acid units, pentamethylenediamine units and 6-aminocaproic acid units as constituents, wherein the weight ratio of the sum of the adipic acid units and the pentamethylenediamine units to the 6-aminocaproic acid units is 97:3 to 75:25. The pentamethylenediamine is preferably one produced from lysine using lysine decarboxylase, lysine decarboxylase-producing cells or a treated product of the cells.

Abstract: It is intended to prepare noodles and noodle skins, in particular, wheat flour-free noodles and noodle skins, which comprise a soybean protein composition at a high ratio. By adding a water-extracted less denatured soybean protein to noodles and noodle skins, noodles and noodle skins containing a large amount of the soybean protein can be obtained. Further, it is possible to obtain wheat flour-free noodles and noodle skins and starch-free noodles and noodle skins.

Abstract: An apparatus of a polycarbonate resin having polymerization tanks is provided. In supplying a molten reactant to a liquid phase in a polymerization tank, or supplying the molten reactant to a gas phase in the polymerization tank by an insertion pipe, in at least one polymerization tank, and/or producing a polycarbonate resin by an ester exchange reaction between an aromatic dihydroxy compound and a carbonic diester by using three vertical polymerization tanks and one horizontal polymerization tank, a wall surface temperature T of a distillation pipe is set higher than a boiling point t1 of by-produced phenol such that the relationship of the boiling point t1 of the by-produced phenol under a pressure in at least a third vertical polymerization tank, the wall surface temperature T of the distillation pipe and an inner temperature t2 of the third vertical polymerization tank satisfies t1<T?t2.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing plural kinds of aromatic polycarbonates by a melt process without changeover loss and quality deterioration. The present invention relates to a production method of an aromatic polycarbonate, comprising supplying a molten mixture of raw materials of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and/or a carbonic diester prepared in the absence of an ester exchange catalyst to polycondensation steps of two lines each equipped with three vertical reactors connected in series and one horizontal reactor, and at the same time, continuously conducting polycondensation reaction in the presence of an ester exchange catalyst.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a polycarbonate resin having an extremely narrow molecular weight distribution, good flowability when melting, and particularly extremely good flowability when melting that does not depend on shear rate. The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin, characterized in that a value obtained by dividing difference between a logarithmic value log MV9.12 of a melt viscosity (Pa·s) measured at shear rate of 9.12 sec?1 and a logarithmic value log MV1824 of a melt viscosity (Pa·s) measured at shear rate of 1824 sec?, with a capillary rheometer having a die diameter of 1 mm? and an effective length of 30 mmL, by a viscosity average molecular weight Mv calculated by the following equations, viscosity difference/molecular weight ratio, is 2.0×10?5 or less. ?sp/C=[?]×(1+0.28?sp) [?]=1.23×10?4×Mv0.83 (In the above equations, ?sp is a specific viscosity measured at 20° C.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing plural kinds of aromatic polycarbonates by a melt process without changeover loss and quality deterioration. The present invention relates to a production method of an aromatic polycarbonate, comprising supplying a molten mixture of raw materials of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and/or a carbonic diester prepared in the absence of an ester exchange catalyst to polycondensation steps of two lines each equipped with three vertical reactors connected in series and one horizontal reactor, and at the same time, continuously conducting polycondensation reaction in the presence of an ester exchange catalyst.