Abstract: A media converter monitors whether a metal cable link is disconnected. If the metal cable link is disconnected, a desired invalid code other than pre-defined codes is successively transmitted toward a fiber optic cable to disconnect its link. If the metal cable link is not disconnected, a first auto negotiation is performed with the metal cable side to set a first line ability, and a second auto negotiation is performed with the fiber optic cable side based on the first line ability to set a second line ability. Subsequently, a third auto negotiation is performed again with the metal cable side based on the second line ability to finally determine the line ability between the metal and the fiber optic cables.

Abstract: A diagnostic drug and a diagnostic kit for autoimmune diseases including at least one of a polypeptide selected from an HMG-1 family, a polypeptide selected from an HMG-2 family, a fragment thereof which is reactable with an antibody of an autoimmune disease patient, and a method for detecting an antibody of an autoimmune disease patient using the same are provided.

Abstract: A diagnostic drug and a diagnostic kit for autoimmune diseases including at least one of a polypeptide selected from an HMG-1 family, a polypeptide selected from an HMG-2 family, a fragment thereof which is reactable with an antibody of an autoimmune disease patient, and a method for detecting an antibody of an autoimmune disease patient using the same are provided.

Abstract: Input data (plain text data or encrypted text data) are latched according to a clock CLK1 and, after initial transposition thereof, the data are outputted from a selector 62. The lower-order bits of the output data from the selector 62 are processed through expanded transposition and then are calculated together with key data K1 in an XOR circuit, and the result data are latched according to a clock CLK2. The latched 48-bit data are divided into eight 6-bits data, each of which is then replaced with 4-bit data, and after combination thereof, the data are transposed. In the calculations of second and subsequent stages, the data obtained through replacement and combination in a replacement/combination circuit 66 are latched according to the clock CLK1 and then are outputted from the selector 62.

Abstract: A display device disclosed herein comprises: a display part including a first thin plate having flexibility and a second thin plate having flexibility, the second thin plate being provided on the first thin plate; a fixing portion which fixes the first thin plate and the second thin plate together on a first direction within each main surface of the first and second thin plates; and a close contact member which is provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction within the main surface, and which brings the first thin plate and the second thin plate into close contact.

Abstract: Disclosed is a key generator, which assures the security of a key by preventing a circuit designer and other persons from readily knowing the value of the key. Random number generator circuits (51, 52, 53 and so on) generate random numbers respectively in accordance with different clocks (CLK1, CLK2, CLK3, and so on). An arithmetic circuit (59) operates on the random numbers generated from the random number generator circuits (51, 52, 53 and so on) to generate an N-bit random number RA as the output from a random number generator (50). This N-bit random number is RA acquired via a key selector (43), and latched into a key register (45) in accordance with an acquisition enable signal EN from a timing monitoring counter (47), which is driven by a clock CLKA other than clocks CLK1, CLK2, CLK3, and so on, to obtain a hardware key, which is a unique secret key.

Abstract: An arithmetic unit and an arithmetic method that output no information necessary for decryption or encryption to the outside and can perform a self-protecting function when an illegal attack is made. A command monitoring part (44) monitors input command sequences. In a first sequence, a process key in a first stage is calculated from a hardware key (Khd) and is then written to a key storing part (47). In each of the following sequences, a process key in a next stage is calculated from a process key stored in the key storing part (47). When commands of predetermined contents are inputted in predetermined order, a content key is calculated and then written to the key storing part (47). Encrypted data is decrypted with the content key, and the result is outputted from data output means (63). When an illegal attack is made, initialization is performed by selecting fixed value data (Kf) as key data (Ksl) and selecting fixed value data (Df) as input data (Ein).

Abstract: An attaching structural unit used for installing a quadrangular solar-battery module onto a slanted roof: comprising

Abstract: A data transfer system provided by the present invention is capable of executing proper management of content transfers with a high degree of efficiency. In a data transfer apparatus employing a primary recording medium, rights to transfer contents stored in a primary recording medium are managed, and transfer rights of contents already transferred to a secondary recording medium employed in a data-recording apparatus are managed by using a generated table for associating first content identifiers each generated by the data transfer apparatus for a content stored in the primary recording medium with a second content identifier received from the data-recording apparatus and generated by the data-recording apparatus for the content, which has already been transferred to the data-recording apparatus.

Abstract: A data transfer apparatus for simplifying a module structure for controlling a connected data recording apparatus and improving the processing efficiency. A control code issued by a common application module having a main purpose of check-out/check-in is made a control code corresponding to a device connected by a conversion module and transmitted via a device driver. Moreover, for example, a control code issued by a local application module having a main purpose of controlling processing depending on a device connected shares the aforementioned device driver. For example, the local application module issues a control code in a state matched with a control code format converted by the conversion module. Alternatively, the local application module issues a local control code by indicating issuance of a local control code of a format different from the control code format converted by the conversion module.

Abstract: A data transfer apparatus referred to as a primary-recording-medium apparatus implements proper system operations by acquisition of information on a secondary recording medium mounted on a secondary-recording-medium apparatus to serve as a destination of a transfer (or a check-out) of a content. If a medium adopting its own unique management technique as is the case with a mini disc is used as the secondary recording medium serving as a destination of a check-out, the primary-recording-medium apparatus acquires information on the secondary recording medium from the secondary-recording-medium apparatus, which is typically a data-recording apparatus.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises a substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate; and a sealing part surrounding the liquid crystal layer and disposed on the substrate, wherein the sealing part comprises a hygroscopic solution. The liquid crystal display device of the invention provides for weight savings in cell manufacture and permits miniaturization of liquid crystal display devices, while maintaining excellent display quality.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for causing either first content data transferred encrypted from a data transfer apparatus or second content data which are input unencrypted to be selectively recorded to a storage medium in a data recording apparatus. Given a command for editing the content data recorded on the storage medium, editing of the recorded data is inhibited or restricted if the data are judged to be the encrypted first content data. When the data recording apparatus is to return the encrypted first content data from the storage medium to the data transfer apparatus, the return of the first content data is inhibited if the data are judged to have been edited. Upon return of the encrypted first content data to the data transfer apparatus, a content ID held by the data recording apparatus regarding the first content data is matched against a content ID held by the data transfer apparatus regarding the same data.

Abstract: Through screening using an antibody to a polypeptide that constitutes a parasporal body in sporangia of Bacillus popilliae and has a larvae growth inhibiting or insecticidal effect on a Scarabaeidae insect and through polymerase chain reaction, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptide and polypeptides similar thereto are isolated.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to significantly reduce the content data processing and transfer times by skipping root key checking processing, when transmitting a plurality of pieces of encrypted content data stored in a primary recording medium to a secondary recording medium along with key information of these plural pieces of content data, if the key information for a piece of content data to be transmitted from the primary recording medium is the same as the key information for an already transmitted piece of content data.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display, and a method of manufacturing the same, the display including a substrate; a pixel electrode on the substrate; a pixel isolator surrounding the pixel electrode, the pixel isolator being formed by an insulator. The display also includes a liquid crystal layer on the pixel electrode surrounded by the pixel isolator; a common electrode on the liquid crystal layer; and a counter substrate on the common electrode.

Abstract: A resin-made cushioning element 1 which is of one-piece construction includes upstanding and downstanding portions 2a and 2b alternately arranged in regular manner to form a matrix having four peripheries.

Abstract: A diagnostic drug and a diagnostic kit for autoimmune diseases including at least one of a polypeptide selected from an HMG-1 family, a polypeptide selected from an HMG-2 family, a fragment thereof which is reactable with an antibody of an autoimmune disease patient, and a method for detecting an antibody of an autoimmune disease patient using the same are provided.

Abstract: This invention provides an information recording medium including a substrate, and a print pattern formed on the substrate and containing a first colorant which changes at least one of a color and a dielectric constant thereof upon application of an electromagnetic field having a first intensity, and a second colorant which behaves differently from the first colorant upon application of the electromagnetic field, a method of reproducing information recorded on the medium, and a method of discriminating an information recording medium whose genuineness is unknown between a genuine article and a counterfeit when the above medium is used as the genuine article.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises a substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate; and a sealing part surrounding the liquid crystal layer and disposed on the substrate,