Abstract: A main wing (1) on which a tensile load is exerted in a longitudinal direction includes a holed structural member that is a composite material made of fiber reinforced plastic which extends in the longitudinal direction and in which access holes (5) are formed and that serves as a center portion (3b); and a front portion (3a) and a rear portion (3c) that are composite materials made of fiber reinforced plastic which extend in the longitudinal direction of the main wing and which are connected to side portions of the center portion. The tensile rigidity of the center portion in the longitudinal direction is set to be lower than the tensile rigidity of the front portion and the rear portion in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The touch sensor system (1) includes: a touch panel (2) having a two-dimensional region (12) made up of a hand placing region (13) and a remainder region (14); a hand placing region processing section (3) for carrying out a process related to the hand placing region in accordance with a hand placing region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the hand placing region (13); and a plot input processing section (4) for carrying out a plot input process in accordance with a remainder region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the remainder region (14).

Abstract: Provided is a touch panel system (1) capable of reliably removing a wide variety of noises. The touch panel system (1) includes a main sensor (31) which detects a touch operation, a sub sensor (32) which does not detect a touch operation but detects a noise component, and a subtracting section (41) which subtracts, from an output signal of the main sensor (31), an output signal of the sub sensor (32). The subtracting section (41) performs a subtracting operation to remove a noise component from the output signal of the main sensor (31), thereby extracting a signal derived from the touch operation itself.

Abstract: A touch sensor panel disclosed herein includes: a plurality of vertical electrodes (6); and a plurality of horizontal electrodes (7), the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) and the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) (i) being so disposed that, as viewed in the direction perpendicular to a substrate, the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) include no segment coincident with the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) and (ii) forming a uniform grid having no gap.

Abstract: Live cells of a microorganism in a test sample are detected by the following steps: a) the step of treating the test sample with a topoisomerase poison and/or a DNA gyrase poison, b) the step of extracting DNA from the test sample, and amplifying a target region of the extracted DNA by PCR, and c) the step of analyzing an amplification product.

Abstract: A touch panel system (71a) includes a capacitance value distribution detection circuit (72). The capacitance value distribution detection circuit (72) switches a connection state between a first connection state and a second connection state, which first connection state makes first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) serve as drive lines (DL1 to DLM) and second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) serve as sense lines (SL1 to SLM), and which second connection state makes the second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) serve as the drive lines (DL1 to DLM) and the first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) serve as the sense lines (SL1 to SLM).

Abstract: The present invention provides a touch sensor system which is capable of removing a hand-placing signal while mounting normal application software on a host device. A touch sensor system (1) includes a hand-placing removing process section (2) which detects a hand-placing region on a basis of strengths of capacitance signals, each strength being indicative of a change in capacitance and which replaces values of capacitance signals corresponding to respective capacitors provided in the detected hand-placing region with a nil value indicative of a state where not touch input is made.

Abstract: A detecting section of a touch sensor system detects a hand placing region in accordance with (i) a strength threshold for determining a strength of an electrostatic capacitance signal in a detection region so as to determine whether or not a touch input is carried out by a finger and (ii) a peripheral threshold which is lower than the strength threshold and is set so as to determine strengths of electrostatic capacitance signals in a plurality of peripheral regions surrounding the detection region.

Abstract: A touch panel system can accurately detect a position of an indicator as distinguished from noise, an electronic information device, and an indicator position detecting method are provided. An indicator position detecting portion detects a position of an indicator, which is in contact with or close to a detecting surface P, based on either one of a first or a second capacitance signal. The first capacitance signal is obtained in a first driving mode in which a first drive signal is applied to first signal lines and a first sense signal appearing on second signal lines is applied to a sense signal processing portion. The second capacitance signal is obtained in a second driving mode in which a second drive signal is applied to the second signal lines, and a second sense signal appearing on the first signal lines is applied to the sense signal processing portion.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride-based resin latex which froths little when unreacted monomer remaining in the latex are recovered under heat and reduced-pressure conditions, and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which has satisfactory water resistance, does not yellow during storage, and gives images having excellent durability and light resistance. The invention provides a vinyl chloride-based resin latex contains a copolymer containing a vinyl chloride and an epoxy-group-containing vinyl or contains vinyl chloride, an epoxy-group-containing vinyl, and a carboxylic acid vinyl ester, wherein a content of the epoxy-group-containing vinyl is 0.1% by weight or more but less than 3% by weight, and wherein the latex contains no surfactant, and has a solid concentration of 25% by weight or more; a process for producing the latex; and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet obtained using the latex.

Abstract: A communication system includes a network formed by a plurality of control units, each operated in a high power consumption mode and a low power consumption mode. A selected one or more of the control units act solely or in cooperation with each other to implement a specific function. Each of the selected one or more of the control units related to the specific function is set in the high power consumption mode. Each of the non-selected control units unrelated to the specific function is set in the low power consumption mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a touch sensor system which is capable of removing a hand-placing signal while mounting normal application software on a host device. A touch sensor system (1) includes a hand-placing removing process section (2) which detects a hand-placing region on a basis of strengths of capacitance signals, each strength being indicative of a change in capacitance and which replaces values of capacitance signals corresponding to respective capacitors provided in the detected hand-placing region with a nil value indicative of a state where not touch input is made.

Abstract: The touch sensor system includes: a touch panel having a two-dimensional region made up of a hand placing region and a remainder region; a hand placing region processing section for carrying out a process related to the hand placing region in accordance with a hand placing region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the hand placing region; and a drawing input processing section for carrying out a drawing input process in accordance with a remainder region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the remainder region.

Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel having sense lines, and drive lines which intersect the sense lines and form capacitance with the sense lines, a touch panel controller for processing signals of the sense lines, and a drive line driving circuit for driving the drive lines in parallel. The touch panel controller includes a subtracting section for finding differences in signals between the sense lines adjacent to each other, a decoding section for calculating a distribution of differences between the capacitances by calculating an inner product of code sequences for driving the drive lines in parallel and difference output sequences which correspond to the code sequences, a touch detecting section for obtaining touch information based on the distribution of differences between the capacitances calculated by the decoding section, and a region setting section for setting an effective region in the touch panel based on the touch information.

Abstract: A touch panel system in which power consumption is reduced, detection sensitivity is enhanced, a controller for the touch panel system, and a method of operating the system. Touch panel system includes status detecting portion having status signal generating portions generating a status signal indicative of a close status of an indicator, a position calculating portion processing the status signal, thereby calculating a position of the indicator on a detecting surface, and a region setting portion for updating an effective region set in the detecting surface P based on the position of the indicator which is calculated by the position calculating portion. A first operation causes the status signal generating portions SL and DL to selectively generate a status signal and a second operation causes the position calculating portion to selectively process the status signals generated by the status signal generating portions SL and DL.

Abstract: A touch panel system in which power consumption is reduced, detection sensitivity is enhanced, a controller for the touch panel system, and a method of operating the system. Touch panel system includes status detecting portion having status signal generating portions generating a status signal indicative of a close status of an indicator, a position calculating portion processing the status signal, thereby calculating a position of the indicator on a detecting surface, and a region setting portion for updating an effective region set in the detecting surface P based on the position of the indicator which is calculated by the position calculating portion. A first operation causes the status signal generating portions SL and DL to selectively generate a status signal and a second operation causes the position calculating portion to selectively process the status signals generated by the status signal generating portions SL and DL.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for converting the coenzyme dependency of enzymes of the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (MDR) family. A further object of the present invention is to provide enzyme variants of the MDR family whose coenzyme dependency is converted by the conversion method and a method for enzymatically producing optically active alcohols using the enzymes. The present inventors developed a novel enzyme conversion method for converting the coenzyme dependency of enzymes of the MDR family, rationally designed enzyme variants that are altered by the enzyme conversion method to be able to use NADPH as a coenzyme from a useful enzyme of the MDR family that uses NADH as a coenzyme, and actually provide variants having such an ability.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of composite material member includes a step of shaping a laminate including laminated prepreg sheets along a mold. The laminate includes a first layer in which fibers are oriented in single direction. In the first layer, a first surface crossing the single direction and a second surface crossing the single direction are confronted each other such that the first surface and the second surface face each other. Since the fibers are discontinuous between the first surface and the second surface, the laminate is easily shaped and wrinkles are hard to be generated in a composite material member to be manufactured from the laminate.

Abstract: A touch panel system prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system includes a touch invalidating section which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic device including the touch panel.

Abstract: A touch sensor panel disclosed herein includes: a plurality of vertical electrodes (6); and a plurality of horizontal electrodes (7), the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) and the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) (i) being so 210 disposed that, as viewed in the direction perpendicular to a substrate, the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) include no segment coincident with the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) and (ii) forming a uniform grid having no gap.