Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that transmits information to a server, the apparatus including: connection determination means for determining whether a portable terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus; information acquisition means for, when the connection determination means determines that the terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus, acquiring, from the terminal, identification information of the terminal and operation information concerning playing of a content played by the terminal; and transmission means for transmitting, to the server, play history information of the terminal together with the identification information of the terminal, the play history information of the terminal being composed of the operation information acquired by the information acquisition means.

Abstract: A pricking device having an accurate pricking function, an automatic safe post-use discarding function and a re-use inhibiting function is disclosed. The pricking device is easy and simple to operate, simple in structure and is high in productivity to reduce production costs. The pricking device is made up of a lancet unit and a housing unit. The lancet unit includes a needle. The lancet unit is formed by a unit body member, a restoration member and a resilient piece for lock molded as one with one another. The unit body member operates to cause the needle to pop out from the housing unit in connection with a pricking operation. The restoration member controls the operation of movement of the unit body member as it stores a force of elasticity in it. After the pricking operation, the needle is returned into the inside of the housing unit under the so stored force of elasticity of the restoration member.

Abstract: In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and an active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a positive electrode containing a positive-electrode active material; a negative electrode containing a negative-electrode active material; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein molybdenum dioxide whose particles have an average aspect ratio of two or less is used as the positive-electrode active material or the negative-electrode active material where the aspect ratio is the ratio between the major axis length and the minor axis length of a particle-equivalent ellipse equivalent to the cross-sectional area or the two-dimensional projection image of each of the observed particles (major axis length/minor axis length), the particle-equivalent ellipse being an ellipse having the same area and the same first and second moments as the observed particle.

Abstract: A lancet cassette includes a lancet having a pricking member for piercing a predetermined portion and a container having a space in which the lancet moves, characterized in that the lancet cassette is capable of mounting a thin sensor element thereon, and a moving direction of the pricking member of the lancet intersects an extending plane of the sensor element in the vicinity of a leading end of the sensor element. Such cassette is used to form a lancet assembly.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing a fine tungsten carbide powder, which comprises the steps of drying a slurry, which is obtained by mixing an aqueous ammonium tungstate solution with a carbon powder, at low temperature, to form a precursor, mixing a reduction and carburization product, which is obtained by reducing and oxidizing the precursor in an inert gas, with a carbon powder in a proportion required to substantially carburize the entire tungsten component into tungsten carbide (WC), and carburizing the mixture; and a high-performance fine tungsten carbide powder produced by the process, which has an average particle size of 0.8 ?m or less and is free of a coarse power having a particle size of more than 1 ?m, and which also contains less metal impurities and contains oxygen and nitrogen in a predetermined amount.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that transmits information to a server, the apparatus including: connection determination means for determining whether a portable terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus; information acquisition means for, when the connection determination means determines that the terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus, acquiring, from the terminal, identification information of the terminal and operation information concerning playing of a content played by the terminal; and transmission means for transmitting, to the server, play history information of the terminal together with the identification information of the terminal, the play history information of the terminal being composed of the operation information acquired by the information acquisition means.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage unit; a first display control unit; and a demanding unit. The storage unit that stores attribute data representing specified attribute of contents and category data representing a category of the attribute correlated to each other. The first display control unit that provides controls for displaying information for a selected attribute and for displaying, in a categorized state, information for related attributes correlated to the same category as that of the attribute on a correlation display screen. The demanding unit that demands data search by referring to the correlated attribute selected corresponding to information selected from among those displayed on the correlation display screen to an information provision device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs processing for editing information on contents includes: an acquisition means for acquiring attribute data classification information in which a plurality of attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of contents is correlated with category data indicating categories for classifying the plurality of attributes; a selection means for selecting predetermined attribute data from the attribute data included in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means; and a correlation means for newly correlating the attribute data selected by the selection means with category data other than the category data, which is correlated in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means, in response to a user's instruction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls reproduction of contents includes: a first storage means for storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other; a second storage means for storing association among the attribute data; and a selection means for selecting a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed. The selection means selects, as the second content, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage means so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores first attribute data representing first attributes, which are attributes of content as an object to be played, and second attribute data representing second attributes, which are attributes of the first attributes, in association with each other, and a first display control unit that controls related display for displaying first attributes having the second attributes identical with a selected first attribute of the first attributes as related attributes. The first display control unit controls the related display to display a second attribute of the selected first attribute and display the related attributes by dividing the related attributes for each of the second attributes identical with the selected first attribute.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a friction drive conveyor including carriers 1, which can be propelled along a track by frictional wheels 30 fitted along the track. Each frictional wheel 30 can be driven by a brakeless motor 29. A sensor 32 senses whether each frictional wheel 30 is in contact with any one frictional surface 15 of the carriers 1. The track includes a section along which the frictional wheels 30 are supported at regular intervals equal to or slightly shorter than the total length L of the frictional surfaces 15 on each side of each carrier 1. On the basis of a signal output from each sensor 32, a controller 24 so controls the associated brakeless motor 29 as to start rotating the associated frictional wheel 30 in contact with any one frictional surface 15 when the forward next wheel 30 gets free of the frictional surfaces 15, and as to stop driving the frictional wheel 30 having got free of the frictional surfaces 15.

Abstract: There is provided a lancet assembly which is improved in view points of its operation, convenience and safety. A lancet cassette which includes a lancet having a pricking member for piercing a predetermined portion and a container having a space in which the lancet moves, characterized in that the lancet cassette is capable of mounting a thin sensor element thereon, and a moving direction of the pricking member of the lancet intersects with an extending plane of the sensor element in the vicinity of a leading end of the sensor element. Such cassette is used to form a lancet assembly.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing a fine tungsten carbide powder, which comprises the steps of drying a slurry, which is obtained by mixing an aqueous ammonium tungstate solution with a carbon powder, at low temperature, to form a precursor, mixing a reduction and carburization product, which is obtained by reducing and oxidizing the precursor in an inert gas, with a carbon powder in a proportion required to substantially carburize the entire tungsten component into tungsten carbide (WC), and carburizing the mixture; and a high-performance fine tungsten carbide powder produced by the process, which has an average particle size of 0.8 ?m or less and is free of a coarse power having a particle size of more than 1 ?m, and which also contains less metal impurities and contains oxygen and nitrogen in a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing a fine tungsten carbide powder, which comprises the steps of drying a slurry, which is obtained by mixing an aqueous ammonium tungstate solution with a carbon powder, at low temperature, to form a precursor, mixing a reduction and carburization product, which is obtained by reducing and oxidizing the precursor in an inert gas, with a carbon powder in a proportion required to substantially carburize the entire tungsten component into tungsten carbide (WC), and carburizing the mixture; and a high-performance fine tungsten carbide powder produced by the process, which has an average particle size of 0.8 ?m or less and is free of a coarse power having a particle size of more than 1 ?m, and which also contains less metal impurities and contains oxygen and nitrogen in a predetermined amount.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a friction drive conveyor including carriers 1, which can be propelled along a track by frictional wheels 30 fitted along the track. Each frictional wheel 30 can be driven by a brakeless motor 29. A sensor 32 senses whether each frictional wheel 30 is in contact with any one frictional surface 15 of the carriers 1. The track includes a section along which the frictional wheels 30 are supported at regular intervals equal to or slightly shorter than the total length L of the frictional surfaces 15 on each side of each carrier 1. On the basis of a signal output from each sensor 32, a controller 24 so controls the associated brakeless motor 29 as to start rotating the associated frictional wheel 30 in contact with any one frictional surface 15 when the forward next wheel 30 gets free of the frictional surfaces 15, and as to stop driving the frictional wheel 30 having got free of the frictional surfaces 15.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing a fine tungsten carbide powder, which comprises the steps of drying a slurry, which is obtained by mixing an aqueous ammonium tungstate solution with a carbon powder, at low temperature, to form a precursor, mixing a reduction and carburization product, which is obtained by reducing and oxidizing the precursor in an inert gas, with a carbon powder in a proportion required to substantially carburize the entire tungsten component into tungsten carbide (WC), and carburizing the mixture; and a high-performance fine tungsten carbide powder produced by the process, which has an average particle size of 0.8 &mgr;m or less and is free of a coarse power having a particle size of more than 1 &mgr;m, and which also contains less metal impurities and contains oxygen and nitrogen in a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a precisely controlled incision in a bodily surface is provided. The incision device includes a housing and a lancet blade carried by a lancet guide assembly. The lancet guide assembly includes a lancet guide arm mounted within the housing for pivotal movement and a guide surface. The guide surface guides the lancet blade through an arcuate cutting stroke during which the lancet blade extends through an opening in the housing as the lancet guide arm is pivoted between an unfired and a fired position The incision device also includes a trigger mechanism having a trigger arm mounted in the housing for pivotal movement between a ready-to-fire position and firing position. A spring element is arranged within the housing such that it is an unbiased condition when the trigger arm is in the ready-to-fire position and is biased as the trigger arm pivots towards the firing position.

Abstract: A gearshift controller for an automatic transmission comprises an input shaft torque estimating portion for estimating the input shaft torque, a torque dividing ratio setting portion for setting the torque dividing ratio for each friction member of each gear range, and a desired torque calculating portion for calculating the desired torque of each friction member on the basis of the input shaft torque and the torque dividing ratio, and a desired hydraulic fluid calculating portion for calculating the desired hydraulic fluid pressure for each friction member on the basis of the desired torque of the each friction member, and a hydraulic fluid controlling portion for providing the desired hydraulic fluid pressure to each friction member.

Abstract: There is provided a blade type lancet assembly of which sterile condition is readily to be kept.A lancet assembly is composed of a lancet structure and a holder which is combined with the lancet structure, the lancet structure includes a lancet member having a pricking member and an ejector which ejects the lancet member, and an exposed portion of the pricking member is covered with a resin.

Abstract: There is provided an assembly capable of more simply adjusting a pricking depth of a pricking element and being mounted onto an injector.The assembly comprises a cap element enabled to be mounted onto the injector and having a stop means constructed such that an end of a lancet from which the pricking element protrudes abuts against the stop means after ejecting the lancet so that movement of the lancet is stopped while the pricking element is exposed outside out of the cap element, a cover element through which the pricking element exposed outside extends and which has an opening against which an object to be pieced is placed, and a adjusting element which engages the cap element and the cover element between these elements, and a distance between the stop means and the opening along a direction of the lancet ejection is changed by rotation of the adjusting element around an axis of the direction of the lancet ejection.