Abstract: An elastic member 43 comprises a crystalline resin. The elastic member is fixed to a piezoelectric element 42 that generates vibration in response to application of an AC voltage, is in contact with a movable body 45 in use, and flexurally vibrates in response to the vibration of the piezoelectric element 42 to drive the movable body 45. The elastic member 43 may have a tooth 43b on an opposite side with respect to a side fixed to the piezoelectric element 42. The crystalline resin may be a poly(aryl ketone) resin or a poly(phenylene sulfide) resin. The piezoelectric actuator has an excellent transmission of flexural vibration. In a case where a displacement expansion element of a displacement-expanding piezoelectric actuator is formed from a crystalline resin, the actuator greatly amplifies an expansion and contraction displacement of a piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A photoresist resin of the invention contains at least a constitutional repeating unit A containing a group capable of partially leaving by the action of an acid to thereby become soluble in an alkali, and a constitutional repeating unit B containing an alicyclic skeleton having a polar group, and has a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 to 15000 and has a content of polymer fractions each having a molecular weight exceeding 40000 of 4 percent by weight or less of the total resin. The molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of the resin is, for example, from about 1.1 to about 3.0, and preferably from about 1.5 to about 2.5.

Abstract: A process for producing for a material for an organic electroluminescent device having an emission center comprises irradiating a laser beam to implant an emission center-forming compound 3 constituting a source 1 into a target 2 having at least one function selected from an electron-transporting function and a hole-transporting function. According to the process, the laser beam and at least the target are relatively moved with irradiating the beam to form the emission center with a predetermined pattern. Moreover, the source and the target being in contact with each other may be moved relative to the laser beam for forming the emission center with a predetermined pattern. Further, the emission center at an area, corresponding to an interference pattern of an interference light, of the target may be formed by irradiating the interference light of the laser beam.

Abstract: An acoustic touchscreen (1a) has transmitting transducers (23a, 23b) for generating acoustic signals which are deflected across a touch-sensitive area (2) by an array 13 of partially acoustically reflective elements 14. A touch on the touch-sensitive area causes a perturbation in the acoustic signals. After traversing the touch-sensitive area, the acoustic signals are redirected by another array 13 of partially acoustically reflective elements 14, towards receiving transducers (26a, 26b), where the signals (and any perturbations) are sensed. To accommodate touchscreens having narrow border regions (15a), the acoustic signals are propagated across the border regions using acoustic waveguides (18). The waveguide confines the acoustic signals to traveling along a narrow path width, but yet permit them to be deflected across the touch-sensitive area. In this manner, the transducers and reflective elements can in turn be of narrower construction and can fit within narrow border regions.

Abstract: A process for producing for a material for an organic electroluminescent device having an emission center comprises irradiating a laser beam to implant an emission center-forming compound 3 constituting a source 1 into a target 2 having at least one function selected from an electron-transporting function and a hole-transporting function. According to the process, the laser beam and at least the target are relatively moved with irradiating the beam to form the emission center with a predetermined pattern. Moreover, the source and the target being in contact with each other may be moved relative to the laser beam for forming the emission center with a predetermined pattern. Further, the emission center at an area, corresponding to an interference pattern of an interference light, of the target may be formed by irradiating the interference light of the laser beam.

Abstract: A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound represented by the following formula (I): 1

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adapting an acoustic touchscreen controller to the operating frequency requirements of a specific touchscreen are provided. The adaptive controller can either utilize look-up tables to achieve the desired output frequency or the it can use a multi-step process in which it first determines the frequency requirements of the touchscreen, and then adjusts the burst frequency characteristics, the receiver circuit center frequency, or both in accordance with the touchscreen requirements. In one embodiment, the adaptive controller compensates for global frequency mismatch errors. In this embodiment a digital multiplier is used to modify the output of a crystal reference oscillator. The reference oscillator output is used to control the frequency of the signal from the receiving transducers and/or to generate the desired frequency of the tone burst sent to the transmitting transducers.

Abstract: The azepine compound capable of emitting a light by light-irradiation or action of an electric field is represented by the following formula (I) or (II): 1

Abstract: An acoustic touch sensing device, comprising a substrate, having a surface; and an acoustic wave transducer, transducing a bulk wave in said substrate propagating through said substrate along an axis intersecting said surface, wherein energy of said bulk wave is coupled to a wave having a converted wave mode with appreciable energy at said surface and propagating along said surface. The device may include a set of scattering centers to couple the bulk wave to a Rayleigh wave or plate wave. The Rayleigh wave or plate wave may be dispersed over a region of the substrate, and analyzed to detect a perturbation indicative of a position of touch.

Abstract: A printing plate material producing concave-convex pattern on the surface with a low laser energy output and having high scratch resistance is provided by formation of a photosensitive layer comprising a nitrocellulose, carbon black or other photoabsorber and a polyurethane elastomer on a support. The nitrocellulose has a nitrogen content of about 11 to 12.5% and a solution viscosity of about 1 to 1/8 second. The polyurethane elastomer is obtainable by allowing a polyester polyol to react with a polyisocyanate and a chain-extending agent. Relative to 100 parts by weight of the polyurethane elastomer, the amount of nitrocellulose is about 5 to 300 parts by weight and that of the photoabsorber is about 0.5 to 50 parts by weight. The photosensitive layer may have a glass transition temperature of not lower than 25.degree. C. The photosensitive layer may further comprise a plasticizer.